The time is near to watch the annual Quadrantids meteor shower, which NASA considers to be one of the best. This year , particularly between 3 a.m. and dawn local time, according to NASA. The photo above shows a Quadrantid fireball streaking through the sky. (NASA) “Most of the contiguous U.S. should see relatively good viewing conditions Sunday night into Monday morning. However, snow showers near the Great Lakes, northern New England and into portions of western Pennsylvania and West...

The photo above shows an image of galaxy SDSS J1126+2944 that was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The black hole that lost most of its stars is pointed out by the arrow. (University of Colorado Boulder ) A supermassive black hole may have lightened up some due to a galaxy-merged crash “diet” that has nothing to do with New Year’s resolutions. According to Space.com, the surprisingly light black hole is one of two found...

When NASA’s New Horizons Space Probe became the first spacecraft ever to reach Pluto on its July 14 flyby, it sent back some curious photos of the dwarf planet’s surface. Transmitted to Earth on Christmas Eve from New Horizon's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, or LORRI for short, the probe’s images show of broken terrain known as Sputnik Planum, according to Tech Times. NASA scientists believe the ’snail' near the center of the image is a dirty block of water ice...