This year, you can celebrate Earth Month under the stars in your own back yard as you watch the Lyrid meteor shower, which will peak on the evening of April 21. The sky will be very dark since the ...

The annual Lyrid meteor shower has returned to the night sky over Connecticut, peaking on the night of April 21 into the 22nd with roughly 10 to 20 meteors per hour. Meteor showers occur when Earth ...

The Lyrid meteor shower has been active since April 17, but the bright fireballs have yet to hit their peak in activity while streaking through the sky. That peak is forecast to last for two nights ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known displays of ...

The Lyrid meteor shower – the second meteor shower on the calendar this year – runs through next Sunday, peaking on the night of Monday and Tuesday this week. An average of 15 or 20 Lyrid meteors per ...