While celestial distractions are never hard to come by on clear evenings, meteor showers offer a different kind of temptation ...

Tonight, on Aug. 12, the Perseid meteor shower will hit its peak, becoming visible in night skies all across the Northern ...

along with the Geminid meteor shower in December and the Perseid meteor shower in August. But the Quadrantids meteor shower has a relatively short peak period of only six hours or so. The ...