The Orionid meteor shower is born from Halley's Comet. Look up for fast, bright meteors lighting up the night sky.
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Here's How to See Two Comets and a Meteor Shower Light Up the Sky This Month
October is shaping up to be a great month for skywatchers. Two comets blazing through our solar system—C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)—will become more visible to the naked eye in a few weeks.
Space dust and debris are crashing into the atmosphere all the time. When that debris heats up the air enough, it lights up ...
Stargazers and meteor enthusiasts across North America could be treated to a spectacular light show under the right ...
Discover Magazine on MSN
Catch the 2025 October Harvest Supermoon Tonight, and Watch for Emerald-Tinged Comets
October 2025 is set to be a busy month for astronomers and stargazers. Learn more about the harvest supermoon, passing comet, ...
Heads up stargazers! The September Epsilon Perseids meteor shower peaks predawn on Sept. 9. Here's what you need to know ...
The Orionid meteor shower is active in night skies over Kamloops and the Okanagan for the next six weeks giving ample time to ...
We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...
A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.
The asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter would hurl fragments if it got destabilized, turning it into dust upon mutual collisions.
The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...
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