Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moon may spoil the Perseid meteor shower views this year, but it's still worth seeing. The Perseid meteor shower — one of the ...

Astronomers using video networks to monitor the skies may have found signs of a new meteor shower caused by an asteroid that was ripped apart by the Sun. Every year, our planet is treated to several ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s still time to catch the Perseid meteor shower, with darker skies now offering better viewing than during its moonlit peak. Stargazers who head out between now and Aug. 23 ...

They produce fast, bright streaks in the night sky. The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower occurs annually from about ...

Exactly 150 summers ago, stargazers were admiring a beautiful new comet. Discovered in mid-July 1862 by Americans Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle, the new object became favorably positioned high in the ...

The Perseids come around once a year and oftentimes is the biggest meteor shower of the year. At its peak early Saturday morning, the Perseids produce up to 100 meteors an hour shooting across the ...

It's time for the annual cosmic show known as the Perseid meteor shower, and this week is your best chance in the past five years to see the sky rain "shooting stars." As a new moon approaches on ...

The best time to look for the meteor shower is in a dark sky with no moon, where one might see 10-15 Lyrids per hour.