Stargazers, get ready to watch one of the world’s oldest known meteor showers as the Lyrid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night.
The Lyrids meteor shower will peak this week. Here's what you need to know before then.
They can be seen anywhere in the sky, but they come from the constellation Lyra, which is how the Lyrid shower gets its name.
A meteor streaked across the skies of the Carolinas during the Bootids meteor shower Thursday afternoon, NASA confirmed.