Stargazers in the northern hemisphere will have the chance to observe the Draconid meteor shower as it peaks Monday evening ...

They come around every year like clockwork and that means planning shooting star trips can be done months in advance. Here's ...

Most meteor showers have a two-day peak ... and color that can persist longer than an average meteor streak. The radiant for Quadrantids -- the point in the sky from which the meteors appear ...

Meteor showers offer some of the most spectacular ... it will be a waxing crescent and set late on January 2. The shower's radiant is in the constellation Bootes. The easiest way to find it ...

Light pollution is the enemy of space viewing and most meteor showers are barely visible in the suburbs, let alone a big city. From there, you'll want to find the radiant -- also known as the ...

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.

(Meteor showers are typically named after their radiant point, or the place in the night sky from which they appear to emanate.) But the meteors don't actually come from this constellation.

The meteors can be traced back to the radiant point, but you don’t need to focus only on this area to see the meteor shower. Meteors will be visible in all parts of the sky. You can use ...

Meteor showers occur on a predictable schedule each ... Astronomers caution that the radiant is not a good guide for where stargazers should look to view the streaking meteors, which should ...

The Quadrantids also originate from an asteroid (asteroid 2003 EH1), while most other meteor showers derive from comets. Their radiant, or the point in the sky from which the stars appear to shoot ...

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 ...

Light pollution is the enemy of space viewing and most meteor showers are barely visible in the suburbs, let alone a big city. From there, you'll want to find the radiant -- also known as the ...