The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NEW YORK (AP) — The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend, sending bright trails of ...

The Lyrid meteor shower should have 10-20 visible meteors per hour on Tuesday night.

Another spring meteor shower — the Eta Aquarids — will be active from April 19 through May 28. Its peak activity will be ...

There will be plenty of opportunities this year to see shooting stars streaking across the night sky. And the Perseid meteor ...

The Milky Way and the Perseid Meteor Shower above Pike National Forest in Colorado. Perhaps nothing makes us feel smaller than witnessing a celestial event. It’s a reminder that we, and the Earth, are ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Right now, there are three active meteor showers. Their peak viewing times are approaching in the next few weeks, and they are, conveniently, all going to be on Saturday and ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansans hoping to enjoy an active meteor shower this week may be sorely disappointed thanks to intervention from the moon. Brenda Culbertson, solar system ambassador with the Jet ...

In Connecticut, sightings of the meteor were reported to the American Meteor Society from Greenwich, Darien, Wilton, New ...

The best time to look for the meteor shower is in a dark sky with no moon, where one might see 10-15 Lyrids per hour.

The Perseid meteor shower is a favorite among stargazers because of it brings plenty of bright, fast (nearly 60 miles per second) meteors at a time when the weather is warm. This year's shower peaks ...

Time to stretch out the lawn chairs, lie back and enjoy the once-a-year celestial show known as the Perseid meteor shower. The Perseids, the dusty debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle, whisk through our upper ...