Many Southern Hemisphere observers consider this shower to be the best meteor shower of the year, but it's a different story ...

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they ...

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...

Arguably, the highlight for astrophotographers this month is comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)’s brush with the Pleiades open cluster to ...

The orange line is the orbit of Jupiter. Image from video-based meteor observations at Earth, displayed at https://meteorshowers.org. April 16, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- Why do comets and their ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.