Lyrid Meteor Shower and Planetary Eclipse set for Wednesday

Every once in a while Mother Nature provides the citizens of planet Earth with a spectacle that no one should miss.  Sometimes it’s an incredible lightning display with thundering echoes, and at other...

Scientists Find Canadian Meteorite

Planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley from the University of Calgary discovered fragments of the ten ton meteorite that fell near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on the evening...

Massive Fireball Falls Over Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada

A bright meteor streaked across the skies of Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada on November 20, 2008 at approximately 5:26 PM MST, prompting telephone calls to police stations, NORAD, and news...

The Orionid Meteors have Arrived -

If you happen to be up before dawn on the morning of Tuesday, October 21, you may want to grab a jacket and head outside to watch the sky around the constellation Orion.  The annual Orionid Meteor Shower...

Perseid meteor shower lights up sky

Enthusiastic observers of the Perseid meteor shower got a beautiful display over the European sky last night. The meteor shower happens when the Swift-Tuttle comet passes the sun and ejects dust particles in its...

Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks August 12 (60-80 per hour)

The Perseids Meteor Shower will peak August 12-13 in 2007. This reliable annual shower usually produces 1 or 2 meteors per minute. The Perseids usually...

Mother Nature's Light Shows

Meteor shower puts on weekend spectacular - "Canadian skies will be streaked with hundreds of meteors Sunday evening as the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak.The month-long natural light show began...