Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky ... below the equator. Shooting stars from the Ursa Major shower can appear anywhere in the sky, so you don't have to do anything ...

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 ...

Videos posted on social media show what appears to be a meteor flying over England in the early hours of Saturday morning. Many others commented that they had seen the phenomenon, from locations ...

An exposure longer than about 25 seconds will start to show star trails and capture their movement as they travel across the night sky, so experiment with timings. Generally, the rule of thumb is to ...

The three bright stars Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak that form Orion's belt are the easiest to spot. Don't look directly at Orion to find meteors, as the shooting ... any other night sky sight ...

Hundreds of people have reported seeing a "shooting star" across the sky over Scotland ... out whether the object travelling across the night sky was a meteor or space junk, and where it came ...

The best time to look for the Leonids will be late on the night of Nov. 16 until ... and produce impressive "shooting stars" that streak across the sky. 55P/Tempel-Tuttle is a small comet with ...