Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

The Hillsborough meteorite belongs to a rare class of rocks from space, according to a new study. It holds amino acids and ...

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun. Reading time 4 minutes Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated ...

Astronomers in Arizona turned to artificial intelligence to test out a new method of classifying meteors based on their physical properties and origin.

Now is your chance to see a comet that takes more than five years to return to Earth's cosmic neighborhood. Here's what to ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteor showers happen every year and are a spectacular sight. Jim Vajda/Flickr, CC BY Have you ever been out at night and seen a ...