Skywatcher and photographer Marian Murdoch snapped this photo of a Lyrid meteor (possibly two) from Ridgecrest, Calif., during the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peak on April 22, 2012. In Bishop, Calif., ...
We've had good reasons to look up at the skies lately: the pink moon last month, the launch and splashdown of the Orion spacecraft, which carried humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 ...