During the peak, the shower can produce as many as 50-100 meteors per hour if viewing conditions are right, NASA said.

Every day, software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scans the orbits of thousands of known near-Earth objects and flags any that will pass within 4.6 million miles of our planet. That distance, ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

As a solar eclipse sweeps across parts of the United States on Aug. 12 — from Alaska to North Carolina — stargazers will also ...

If you’ve ever wanted a chance to see “shooting stars” streaking across the sky, you’re in luck: one of the best meteor showers of the year is happening right now.

We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our help center.