In the fall of 1902, a Welsh settler named Ellis Hughes was cutting wood on a forested hillside near the small town of ...

Uranus: Uranus is in the night sky every day in November, rising in the east shortly before sunset and setting in the west ...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight on Oct. 21-22. Here's how to see "shooting stars" from Halley's Comet.

They’re regarded as one of the year’s most thrilling meteor showers, sputtering a modest 10 to 15 meteors per hour typically.

The Taurid meteor showers could produce bright Halloween fireballs this fall. Here’s when the Southern and Northern Taurids ...

The Taurids produce only a handful of meteors an hour. That sounds disappointing, but I've learned that expecting almost ...

One fragment crashed into a bedroom. Others were recovered across Houston.

The Orionid meteor shower, or the Orionids, will peak soon, giving astronomers and stargazers a show. The meteor shower will ...

The shower is expected to peak overnight Wednesday, Oct. 21, into Thursday, Oct. 22. In New York, the Orionid radiant, the ...

It’s a fall favorite among stargazers, known for bright, speedy streaks that can sometimes linger in the sky for minutes.

A mysterious explosion in Spring is now an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Scientists have uncovered seven surprising stages that space rocks go through as they hurtle toward Earth, revealing that ...