The month brings a spectacular lineup of celestial sights—including a rare chance to see Mercury without a telescope and a "micro" new moon. A super “beaver moon” rises behind Monte Prena in Italy’s ...

Sky-gazers worldwide may get the chance to see a celestial display this week as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak.

The Leonids meteor shower is one of the two best annual meteor showers to be seen in the Northern Hemisphere night sky, the ...

Since 1833, when the Leonids unleashed over 100,000 meteors an hour, scientists have traced these celestial tempests to a...

You won't need binoculars or a telescope, but you will need to get away from city lights to see one of the meteor showers ...

This November, the Taurid meteor shower is putting on one of its most spectacular shows. While many meteor showers have short ...

Thanks to MeerKat, this detection was possible. The radio telescope was able to detect the signals from the interstellar object when it was 3.76 degrees away from the Sun, almost seven times the Sun’s ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks from Tuesday, Nov. 11 to Wednesday, Nov. 12. Activity runs from late October through Wednesday, Dec. 10, but this window offers the best odds for the shower’s ...

A full Beaver supermoon in San Diego in 2023. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images) It’s a packed week for stargazers, as both the Beaver moon and the Taurid meteor shower are expected to peak later this week.

WASHINGTON — Three meteor showers will light up the sky in November, giving stargazers a potentially action-packed month. The Taurids will peak on Wednesday, Nov. 5. The meteor shower consists of the ...

The Southern Taurids will soon peak, but it may not be the best time to see the spectacular global event. The meteor shower is active from Sept. 20 to Nov. 20, but it will be most active when it ...