Each summer, skywatchers around the world look forward to the famous Perseid meteor shower, but often overlook four lesser ...

The solar shooting stars were spotted by Solar Orbiter as it observed spectacular plasma firework displays called coronal rain, formed of gas with temperatures upwards of 2 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Four months into a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a member of Expedition 27, astronaut Ron Garan, Jr., has been tweeting incredible photos from space.

So-called shooting stars are not really stars but tiny bits of rock plunging through Earth's atmosphere at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h). This blazing-fast descent causes the rocks to heat ...