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Meteor Showers

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The Perseids peak this week! Here's how to watch one of the best meteor showers of 2021

By Phil Plait |

1 year ago

Three Geminid meteors from the 2012 shower. Credit: John Chumack

The sky is falling! Here's how to watch tonight's Perseid meteor shower

By Phil Plait |

2 years ago

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The sky's not falling: Guam's mystery fireball linked to satellite test launch

By Jacob Oller |

2 years ago

A composite photo (made up of several individual pictures) of Quadrantid meteors burning up over Earth, taken from the International Space Station on 4 January, 2020. The green glow of the aurora borealis is seen to the north. Credit: NASA

Amazing photo of the Quadrantid meteor shower… from space!

By Phil Plait |

2 years ago

The orbit of the Quadrantid meteoroids takes them from as far as Jupiter’s orbit (orange) to Earth (blue), moving nearly perpendicular to Earth’s path around the Sun. We intersect this debris trail every January, so we get a meteor shower at that time. Cr

Fireworks for the New Year: The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks tomorrow!

By Phil Plait |

2 years ago

Three Geminid meteors from the 2012 shower. Credit: John Chumack

Will the Unicorn give us a meteor storm on November 22?

By Phil Plait |

2 years ago

A meteor shower — in theis case, the Perseids — is usually composed of small bits material sloughed off a comet that burn up in our atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL

Could larger space rocks be hiding in the Beta Taurid meteor stream? We may find out this summer.

By Phil Plait |

3 years ago

An impact from a small meteoroid lights up the moonscape. Credit: Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS)/Jose Maria Madiedo

Watch two meteorites hit the Moon

By Phil Plait |

4 years ago