The Geminids are the most active meteor shower of the year, with at times, over 200 meteors per hour streaming across the sky. Most meteor showers come from icy comets—but not the Geminids! Their parent is the oddball asteroid 3200 Phaethon, which zips ...

Amid tonight's waning crescent moon phase — a very thin sliver of light — you may catch site of the bright Leonid meteor shower that peaked this week and remains active until Nov. 30 or the Northern Taurids, active until Dec. 10. Here's when and what ...

You can tune in to see live views of the Geminid meteor shower as it peaks overnight on Dec. 13-14, thanks to a free livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Project. The annual shower occurs as Earth passes through the debris-strewn orbit of the ...

The Geminid meteor shower, widely regarded as one of the most dependable and spectacular sky shows of the year, will peak overnight between December 13 and 14 in India. The Geminids are an unusually prolific meteor shower whose parent body is 3200 Phaethon ...