April’s full moon looks smaller than usual this month, and despite its “pink moon” namesake, the orb will have a white-golden ...

Dark sky hunting has become one of the biggest movements in travel, says Alicia Miller. And with International Dark Sky Week ...

To best see the Lyrid meteor shower, Griffith Observatory's director suggests heading to the mountains or desert to get away ...

For the Lyrids, the parent body is Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, a long-period comet, going around the Sun every 415 years or so.

A free light show will flash over South Carolina skies later this month. Every year, the Lyrids meteor shower sparks across the Northern Hemisphere in late April. South Carolinians will have the ...

A Lyrid meteor shower begins this week, peaking on April 21-22 Meteor showers are "basically debris from the tails of comets" The meteor shower will be visible in the northern hemisphere It's one ...

A Lyrid meteor shower begins this week, peaking on April 21-22 Meteor showers are "basically debris from the tails of comets" The meteor shower will be visible in the northern hemisphere It's one ...

The Lyrids, one of the oldest known meteor showers is returning to the skies later this week. In the days ahead, stargazers will have a chance to witness some Lyrid meteors before the shower hits ...

From the measured shower dispersions, the team calculated the ages of over 200 long-period comet meteoroid streams, which were published in Jenniskens' most recent book "Atlas of Earth's Meteor ...