Bright streaks in the night sky aren't always meteors. With more and more satellites overhead, it's getting harder to tell ...
On February 9, 1913, hundreds of fireball meteors rained down on North America for no apparent reason. This strange event is ...
The Perseid meteor shower radiates from the constellation Perseus and occurs every year between July and September.
The Alpha Centaurid meteor shower will peak on 8 2026. Best visible from southern skies, it offers shooting stars and ...
A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday ...
The Perseids will dazzle in August with up to 100 meteors an hour and ideal viewing conditions across the Northern Hemisphere.
As 2026 gets underway, meteor enthusiasts are already looking beyond the year’s first major shower. The Quadrantids, which peaked earlier this month, were mostly drowned out by a full moon, but the ...
The Quadrantid meteor shower marks the start of the astronomical calendar each year and in 2026 it will once again offer a ...
In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...