What better way to celebrate the start of May than by catching a glimpse of a meteor shower? The 2021 Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak on the evening of Tuesday, May 4, through the early morning of ...

Humans have been looking to the sky to make sense of the world around us for thousands of years. Ancient cave paintings seem to show humans began using the position of the stars to keep track of time ...

Stacker consulted scientific articles and news reports to find out about five of the rarest astronomical events and when they'll next occur. - Heritage Space/Heritage Images // Getty Images Stacker ...

The head of Halley’s Comet as photographed by Dr George Willis Ritchey. Humans have been looking to the sky to make sense of the world around us for thousands of years. Ancient cave paintings seem to ...