The Perseids result from Earth passing through debris — bits of ice and rock — left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last ...

Set an alarm for the small hours of May 5 or 6, 2026, and you could catch dozens of meteors streaking across the sky before ...

A daytime fireball over western Europe on March 8 kicked off a streak of "extraordinary" meteor sightings across Europe and the United States over the past three weeks, with astronomers now working to ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

On Monday night, people saw a meteor streak across the sky over Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to NASA Space Alerts on X. It was the second meteor sighting on Monday alone ...

Two meteor showers, the Southern delta Aquarids and the alpha Capricornids, will peak simultaneously from July 30-31. The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, will peak between ...

The 2026 Lyrids meteor shower has kicked off this week with shooting stars and zooming fireballs expected to light up the sky over the next two weeks, before the stronger Eta Aquariids get started.

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun. Reading time 4 minutes Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated ...

A surge of bright meteor fireballs has been reported across the United States in March 2026, with multiple events occurring within days of each other. From Ohio to Texas, California, and the Pacific ...

Beginning in July, stargazers can look forward to three meteor showers this summer, including the famed Perseids. Here's ...