While most meteor showers originate from comets, the Quadrantids come from asteroid 2003 EH1 — a small asteroid that was ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaks ... flashlights to preserve your night vision. You can watch for Geminid meteors all night on December 13 through Dec. 14 as the shower's radiant will rise in ...

The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

The first meteor shower of 2025—considered by NASA to be one of the best annual showers—is projected to reach a peak in activity Thursday night, with hundreds of meteors expected to brighten ...

Quadrantids meteor shower is hitting peak visibility for Southern California on Friday night heading into Saturday morning, from roughly midnight to 5:30 a.m., possibly 6 a.m.

2025 will be off to a dazzling start. While 2024 may have set the astrotourism bar high, 2025 has a host of night-sky marvels in store, too — including many that are set to grace our skies this ...

The Quadrantids meteor shower will have its most vibrant display tonight into early Friday morning, with meteors emanating from the northeast in the direction of the Big Dipper. Partly to mostly ...

Unlike more prolonged meteor showers, whose peaks often last a full night, the Quadrantids are known for their short yet intense peak, which lasts just a few hours. Under ideal conditions ...

While most meteor showers have a two-day peak, the Quadrantids’ lasts only a few hours — just six hours on the night of Thursday, Jan. 2, into Friday, Jan. 3. The best time to view the first ...

Get ready for a spectacular start to 2025, as one of the most active meteor showers in the astronomical calendars is set to light up the skies.

A Quadrantid meteor shower as seen in the night sky over the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China on January 4, 2022. Xue Bing/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images Brilliant streaks of ...

Things pick up again in April with the Lyrids meteor shower. Its radiant is Lyra, which will rise out of the eastern sky every night during its run. This one is a little bigger than most ...