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 ...

Despite being tied to a constellation, meteors are visible across the entire night sky during the shower. When Will the Quadrantid Meteor Shower Peak? The Quadrantids are currently active and will ...

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 ...

Watching a meteor shower is one of the most accessible ways to engage with the night sky. The first shower of the year is the Quadrantids, which peaks overnight on January 2–3 but will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first meteor shower of the year is expected to light up the sky on Friday night, with stargazers in the UK to see up to 50 “shooting stars” an hour. The Quadrantid meteor shower ...

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 ...