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One of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year reaches its peak this week—giving skywatchers the chance to see up to ...

If you have any clear night skies this week, bundle up and get outside to see the best meteor shower of the year!

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Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Enormously excited, the pair approached one of their directors, James Shand, who agreed to provide a few thousand pounds and ...