A meteor streaks across the sky in Vinton, California, during the Perseid meteor shower on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford) The Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak Friday night into Saturday's pre-dawn hours, when observers can expect to see up to 20 meteors per hour, or roughly one every three minutes.This will be the first meteor shower since January. Although unexpected this year, the Lyrids can sometimes produce as many as 100 meteors in an hour at its...

Circled is the plane flying over Mainz, Germany, April 26, 2017. (Thomas Pesquet/International Space Station) From its orbit of more than , the International Space Station (ISS) spotted a jumbo jet cruising over Europe on Wednesday. ,who is on a six-month mission aboard the ISS shows the four-engine aircraft over Mainz, Germany. You can see the plane in the circle weather.com hasadded tohis photograph above. Trailing behind the plane are its contrails which show upeasily in contrast to the waters...

Scientists’ hopes of finding alien life have been renewed after a newly discovered super-Earth was spotted revolving around a nearby red dwarf. “,” Jason Dittmann, lead author on the study on the discovery, said in a release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). “We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science — searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.” According to the study, and may have likely maintained its atmosphere despite...