The robust and fireball-rich Perseid meteor shower peaks Monday Aug. 12, teasing lengthy streaks of light and color to ...

Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

The Perseid meteors are fragments of ice and rock ejected by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which swing into the inner solar system every 133 years. When Earth passes through this stream of debris each year ...

One of the best meteor showers of the year peaks this weekend, and with any luck, you should be able to catch at least a few of the shooting stars for yourself. The Perseid meteor shower is ...

Every August, the most entertaining spectacle in our solar system isn't in theaters or on a streaming service, but above all our heads at night: the cosmic pyrotechnics display that is the Perseid ...

A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower. Courtesy NASA/Bill Ingalls via Flickr. We’re nearing the peak of one of the biggest astronomical events of the year ...