With three space missions under his belt — and more than a year aboard the International Space Station — NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has experienced something that very few humans have.

It's not the most powerful shower of the year, yielding only about 10 shooting stars each hour, but in 2024, it peaks just hours after the northern hemisphere's winter solstice on Saturday ...

"Are those shooting stars? What are those?" someone watching the breakup is heard saying from the Turks and Caicos Islands. "Look up everybody! Look up!," someone else says. SpaceX Founder and CEO ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month, here’s a ...