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The Leonids meteor shower peak is expected from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning. The meteor shower, which is already in progress, is expected to have 20 meteors per hour at the time of peak. The Leonids meteor shower will radiate from the Leo constellation present in the northeastern part of the sky.

Experts have predicted great viewing conditions this time as the moon will set before midnight allowing people to clearly see the meteor shower. But experts said weather could be bit troubling.

The Leonids meteor shower is quite fast. They strike earth’s atmosphere at the speed of 158,000 mph, which is considered to be fastest when compared with other meteor showers. Earthsky.org has a suggestion to make that the best time to view the meteor shower is between midnight and dawn.

On regular basis, new facts about climate change get surfaced. A new report has unveiled about climate change’s effects on the northern hemisphere’s water supply. Researchers said that many nations north of the equator can suffer water shortage owing to shrinking snowpacks.

The article published in the Environmental Research Letters has revealed that scientists have found snow-dependent drainage basins in the northern hemisphere that cater to two billion people. Scientists on the basis of their computer models have predicted that reduced snowpacks could affect water supplies by 2060.

If you think only humans do crazy things for love, then a new study will surely change your belief. Researchers from the University of Oxford have found that great tits give up access to food just to be with their lovers.

According to the researchers, they thought that the small song birds that were mating would break up if they will have greater access to food. They conducted a study and restricted access to food to one bird in the mating pair. The researchers found that the bird without access to a feeder chose to spend time with its partner. The study published in the journal Current Biology suggested that great tit’s foraging behavior influence by love.

Astronomers claim they have successfully measured and mapped the weather system of HD 189733b, an extrasolar planet about 63 light-years away from the solar system, for the first time. Winds on the exoplanet are blowing at a speed of about 5,400 miles per hour, according to the astronomers at the University of Warwick.

The winds on HD 189733b are over 20 times faster than winds on earth, and about seven times faster than speed of light. Before the new discovery, winds on Jupiter's Little Red Spot were recorded as the fastest. On Little Red Spot, winds blow at a 382 miles per hour.

New Horizons spacecraft has been sending valuable data and images of Pluto since last year. During a flyby of the planet this summer, the spacecraft collected data and pictures. Currently, scientists have been processing that data. Now, they have released a beautiful psychedelic image of the planet in the Kuiper belt. The new image is blotted with highly contrasting colors.

Alan Stern, principal investigator of New Horizons from the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), said it was interesting and surprising to know that dwarf planets can be active billions of years after their creation and that too in massive scale.

An international team of hydrologists has unveiled that around six quintillion gallons of groundwater is present in earth. The study provides the first data-driven estimate about the amount of water present in earth’s soil, sand and aquifers.

Earlier estimates about the groundwater level were based on crude estimates carried out in the 1970s. Tom Gleeson of the University of Victoria said, “We already know that water levels in lots of aquifers are dropping. We’re using our groundwater resources too fast – faster than they’re being renewed”.