The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak, when several streaks of meteors could be visible. The Orionid meteor shower is active each year from about Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, according to the American Meteor ...

Two meteor showers are set to captivate sky-gazers as they peak in October, with the Draconids making a brief appearance this week and the Orionids putting on more of a celestial show later this month ...

Michigan sky gazers are in luck this month, there will be four shooting star displays, or meteor showers, in the night skies during October. The Draconids, Orionids, Southern Taurids and Northern ...

The Draconid meteor shower is set to begin on the same night as the supermoon, coinciding with the activation of two other meteor showers. The meteor shower is expected to start on Monday, Oct. 6, ...

At 10:58 AM on Sept. 28, 1969, residents of the small farming community of Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, heard a series of loud booms. The noise was accompanied by a strong smell and a streak of ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...

This discovery strengthens the theory that meteorite impacts can create long-lived habitable environments—not just on Earth, but potentially on Mars, Europa, and other planetary bodies where similar ...

Pattern Group (PTRN) is expected to price its IPO after the market closes on Monday. Reports indicate the IPO has seen strong early demand. The IPO consists of 21.43 million shares, half offered by ...

Pattern Group Inc., an e-commerce firm that resells goods on marketplaces such as Amazon.com Inc., and some of its investors are seeking to raise as much as $321.4 million in an initial public ...

The Perseid meteor shower above the Kusca fairy chimneys in Turkey, on Aug. 12. (Ercin Erturk/Getty Images) Although the Perseid meteor shower peaked late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, ...