Insomniacs rejoice, for the sleepless who gaze skyward at about 3:30 a.m...

While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as being from the tail of the renowned Halley’s comet, Earth actually passes through this tail twice each year, and we are in t...

The pre-dawn hours of Earth Day this year bring the Lyrid meteor shower, during which fragments of Comet Thatcher (no relation to iconic Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, who was laid t...

Last month a meteor streaked across the skies above the Ural mountain range in Siberia, and on Friday March 22 it was Turtle Island's turn...

If Friday February 15 had been scripted in a sci-fi movie, it wouldn’t have been believable...

A meteor streaked across the early-morning sky in Russia and exploded into a fireball on Friday over the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, in the Ural Mountains...

Astronomers weren’t expecting much from this year’s incarnation of the Leonid meteor shower, but those flecks of rock smacking into Mother Earth’s atmosphere have surprised observe...

Insomniacs, fishers and other pre-dawn perambulators may want to turn their eyes skyward as Veterans Day proper segues into the holiday Monday, checking for fireballs from the Taur...

It's that time of year again, when Mother Earth's orbit takes us through the remants of the tail of Halley's Comet to give us one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers: the...

In the Native community, deep-space rocks are not just astronomical curiosities; they are sacred objects...