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

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

The radiant point of the shower is a right angle ... so it’s not necessary to look only in that direction. Like the Geminid meteor shower, the Quadrantids come from a mysterious asteroid or ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

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’ radiant, or the point in the sky from which the meteor shower appears to come from, is an obsolete constellation called the Quadrans Muralis, according to NASA. French ...

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 ...