The Geminids are coming
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It&#39;s the end of the year and what better way for stargazers to close it out than by viewing the best meteor shower of 2004? The Geminid meteor shower occurs mid-December every year.
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With the Moon reaching New    phase on Jan. 10 and thus leaving the sky darker, now is an ideal time to get    out your binoculars and explore the profusion of open or galactic star clusters    now evident in our evening sky.
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Though skies may not be consistantly clear, Monday night (December 13th) should be the best viewing for the Geminid Meteor shower in a long time.
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Two independent teams of astronomers are reporting that they might be zeroing in on the time that bright galaxies began to light up the primordial universe.
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Scientists disagree on the origins of the annual Geminid shower but agree that conditions this year favor a spectacular show. Shooting stars of mysterious origin promise a spectacular sky-show tonight for
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets that take less than a day to whiz round their parent stars.
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Ever since two Gemini spacecraft met up high above Earth in 1965, the U.S. space program has used astronauts for every rendezvous in orbit -- with other spacecraft, satellites, space stations or the Hubble Space Telescope.
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WASHINGTON -- A meteor shower that had some startled motorists calling police is expected to continue over the next few days. Saturday night&#39;s light show was part of the Geminids meteor shower, News4 reported.
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A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.
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A discovery now has some astronomers entertaining visions of icy volcanoes roiling on some of the tiny worlds circling beyond Neptune, at least at one time.
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Because skipping across the heavens like celestial sparklers will be hundreds of shooting stars during the annual Geminid meteor shower.
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One of the world's most powerful telescopes will be trained on the skies on Friday, searching for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  Stargazers will get a rare triple planetary treat this weekend with Jupiter, Mercury and Mars appearing to nestle together in the pre-dawn skies.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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It&#39;s a global celestial event and scientists say the annual Geminid Meteor Shower is the best astronomy show of the year. NASA&#39;s Web site explains that the shower is created as Earth moves through a cloud