It’s that time of year again, and the peak of what’s revered as the “best meteor shower of the year” is approaching. The Perseid meteor shower is considered the best of the year due to how ...

The best time to watch a meteor shower is in the early predawn hours when the moon is low in the sky. Competing sources of ...

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through trails of dust and debris left behind by comets or asteroids. The Perseids ...

A Japanese spacecraft is on a remarkable journey toward one of the most puzzling celestial objects in our solar system — a ...

What Are Meteor Showers? Several times each year, as the Earth journeys around the sun, our planet crosses paths with streams of debris left behind by comets (and occasionally those from asteroids.) ...

While orbiting around the sun, many times a year, Earth passes through the debris left by comets and asteroids.

As the Earth orbits the sun, several times a year it passes through debris left by passing comets and sometimes asteroids. The source of the Delta Aquariids is debris from comet 96P/Machholz.