Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Where do shooting stars come from? It’s long been known that meteors are caused by meteorites striking Earth’s atmosphere ...

Nearly a ton of shooting stars fall on ... video camera to monitor the sky above Shiga Prefecture. They estimated the weights of observed falling stars based on their brightness levels and speeds ...

Shooting stars from the Ursa Major shower can appear anywhere in the sky, so you don't have to do anything particularly complicated to see one aside from hunting down a dark country sky free from ...

A St. Louis man living in D.C. describes what he saw during the moment of impact in the deadly plane and helicopter crash in ...

Viewers should start observing around 11 p.m. local time when the rates of shooting stars increase and can watch the sky until dawn. Unfortunately, the peak occurs just three days after a full ...

it may be tough to tell which meteor shower a shooting star comes from. This is especially true since Taurus, Leo, and Orion are all in the eastern sky at this time of year. Leonids often has fast ...

Every now and then, the shower erupts into a phenomenal meteor storm where thousands of meteors fall each hour ... impressive "shooting stars" that streak across the sky. 55P/Tempel-Tuttle ...