meteors

Watch The Quadrantids Meteors Shower on January 3 The annual Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the year’s best. In 2011, this shower will be especially good because it reaches its peak the evening of January 3, within 8 hours of New Moon. So, not only will you see bright meteors easily...

Perseid meteors live up to billing OGDEN, Utah, Sky watchers in countries around the world say the Perseid meteor shower mostly lived up to its promise of a spectacular celestial show, with a meteor a minute. Observers in Iran, Norway and the United States and others blessed with clear and...

Streaking swiftly across the sky, motes of dust burn up as meteors. Although Earth constantly sweeps up interplanetary dust, our planet runs through a slightly denser trail this month. Named after the constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate, the Boötids peak June 23, 3 days before...