Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...

Experts on meteoritics and palaeontology have created a detailed timeline to take you back to the very last day of the ...

Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...

A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors ...

Two meteor showers, the Southern delta Aquarids and the alpha Capricornids, will peak simultaneously from July 30-31. The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, will peak between ...

From a musical “Reflection on America” to the start of one of the Bay Area’s best concert series, there are a lot of great ...

Early birds are in for a celestial treat this week as activity from the Eta Aquariid meteor shower heats up — but they’ll need to keep sharp eyes on the sky. The shower will peak between Tuesday and ...

Many New Yorkers likely looked up to the sky this week in hopes of seeing the flashing lights of meteors as the Lyrids shower reached its most active state of 2026. The Lyrids meteor shower, which ...

The Lyrids meteor shower is underway and will soon peak. The meteor shower is known to produce around 10 to 20 meteors, or shooting stars, for the three nights around its peak, when stargazers will be ...

Stargazers have certain dates circled on their calendar each year. One of those is right now, and it's for the Lyrid meteor shower. Other WRAL Top Stories As with any meteor shower, one of the ...

This year's Lyrid meteor shower is getting a boost thanks to a dim crescent moon. Skywatchers could see 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour soar across the spring sky, according to NASA, when the fiery ...

After a more than three-month meteor shower drought, you can finally look to the skies again for a cosmic display. The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak, or reach its maximum activity, on ...