There will be plenty of chances to spot shooting stars throughout 2026, with meteor showers putting on a show nearly every ...
But as bad as it is for the Quadrantids this year, it will be a very different story in 2028.
Sky-gazers worldwide may get the chance to see a celestial display this week as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak. The Leonids are set to peak at 1 p.m. ET Monday, according to EarthSky ...
A fireball streaks across the morning sky above NSF Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. What’s a summer without a meteor ...
Today sees the beginning of the Geminids, the most prolific meteor shower of the year. A meteor shower that favours the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a display often overlooked by skywatchers despite the ...
A meteor is a broken fragment of rock from space, such as debris from an asteroid collision, that enters Earth's atmosphere. They are typically visible at night as they make fast-moving streaks ...
Comets and meteors have traditionally been said to foretell the fall of princes. They also often serve as metaphors for other disasters of epic or biblical proportions. On July 20, 1860, a meteor ...
This image provided by NASA shows comet 96P Machholz which orbits the Sun about every six years, and is suspected to cause the Southern Delta Aquariid meteor showers. WASHINGTON — It’s almost time for ...
The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak, when several streaks of meteors could be visible. The Orionid meteor shower is active each year from about Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, according to the American Meteor ...
The Perseid meteor shower above the Kusca fairy chimneys in Turkey, on Aug. 12. (Ercin Erturk/Getty Images) Although the Perseid meteor shower peaked late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, ...
The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight, Tuesday, August 12, into the following morning. The usual advice to maximize meteors in the hours before sunrise is as the Earth turns into the stream of dust ...
A meteor lit up the sky over Mount Fuji, Japan, in the early hours of Friday, captured on CCTV by the Hiratsuka City Museum.