The first of our showers is the Delta Aquarids, with a broad three-day maximum running from July 29 through 31.

The star, called HR 5171 A, shines 12,000 light-years from Earth in the center of a new image released today (March 12). Known as a "yellow hypergiant," The star is more than 1,300 times the ...

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 ...