CHARLOTTE — The Lyrid meteor shower is the first of the year, and we could see up to 20 meteors per hour, meteorologist Joe Puma said. While the peak of the meteor shower was Tuesday night, we should ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

Eclipses, meteor showers, supermoons, oh my — skywatchers have a busy 2022 ahead. Sure, 2021 had the Perseid meteor shower and the Strawberry supermoon, but they may pale in comparison to what is ...

Stargazers could be treated to a dazzling display at the end of May thanks to the remains of a shattered comet. The possible meteor shower, called the tau Heruclid, is forecast to peak on the night of ...

Earth is expected to pass through the debris trail of a broken comet on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. It could result in a brand new meteor shower. Night sky watchers in North America have ...

The threat of a civilization-ending asteroid hitting the Earth is well-known — as a plethora of Hollywood movies on the subject has demonstrated. But there is a less-known threa ...