Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. With the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower last night, ...

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Avid sky-gazers spend all year anticipating the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Now, it’s finally here. This weekend, dozens of meteors, including some especially brilliant ones called ...

A fireball streaks across the morning sky above NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. A rare display of “shooting stars” ...

Despite the nearly full moon illuminating the skies, the Geminid meteor shower could still put on a great show tonight. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

A meteor that caused a loud boom when it exploded over Massachusetts Saturday afternoon split into fragments four times larger than most meteorites, according to NASA.