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

The Quadrantids are considered by NASA as one of the best annual meteor showers, though activity is often unseen because of ...

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.

The New Year kicks off with Quadrantids, which is finishing its peak this week, but runs until Jan. 16. After that, aside from the occasional couple weeks here and there, there is a named meteor ...

The Quadrantids are one of the strongest showers of the year, astronomers say. Stargazers can ring in the beginning of 2025 by witnessing the first meteor shower of the year. The Quadrantids, one ...

The Quadrantids might be one of the strongest showers this year, but poor weather could make them difficult to see. By Katrina Miller The universe has given us abundant holiday light shows ...

Fireworks are a New Year's Eve tradition and ring in the new year with dazzling displays in the night sky, but the universe has a way of putting on its own fiery show. The Quadrantids meteor ...

The Quadrantids meteor shower from the 2003 EH1 asteroid is dubbed by NASA as the most spectacular of the year and is still ...

The full moon will light up our recent snow cover, making for some bright nights. We've got NASA tips on what else to look ...

The best time to watch a meteor shower is in the early predawn hours, when the moon is low in the sky. Competing sources of ...

In this Dec. 14, 2023 photo provided by NOIRLab, meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a ...