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The Perseid meteor shower is visible from Thursday, July 17th, through September 1. The Perseids are predicted to reach their zenith or peak streak on the evening of August 12th, continuing until just ...

The Perseids meteor shower begins this week and is expected to offer one of the best shows in the sky of 2025. The event is considered the best meteor shower of the year, according to NASA, and is ...

There's a series of celestial events happening this month, so mark your calendars Getty Forget the rain — April has its own set of meteor showers lighting up the heavens! This month is often ...

Gather round and gaze up, cosmic kids, the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight. In previous years, the Perseid shower has produced as many as 40-50 visible meteors per hour at its peak.

The Perseid meteor shower is starting, and backyard astronomers will soon be able to catch a glimpse of the annual event. The meteor shower starts on Thursday, July 17, and ends Saturday, August 23, ...

The Perseid meteor shower ‒ one of the best of the year, according to NASA ‒ treats stargazers to plentiful bright meteors streaking swiftly through the atmosphere and colorful exploding fireballs.

A ritual of summer is gazing up at the night sky in the hopes of seeing meteors, also known as shooting stars, flash across the night sky. While the annual Perseid meteor shower usually gets the most ...

NASA captured multiple meteor showers happening at once in August 2015 from a station in Huntsville, Ala. Two of them are the Southern Delta Aquariid and the Alpha Capricornid. (NASA) Two meteor ...

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on the same night. By Katrina Miller Our universe might be chock-full of cosmic ...

WASHINGTON — The night sky is putting on a meteor shower duet this week. Two meteor showers will peak simultaneously Tuesday night into Wednesday, giving stargazers a celestial double feature. The ...

Late July is an optimal time to see meteors streaking across the sky. It may be the best time of year for stargazers to witness meteors blazing through the night sky. Late July will offer the chance ...