Esthetically and astronomically, the night was ideal,” a reporter wrote of a Perseid meteor watch in 1968 a period when the Moon’s phase was as this August’s was, and its brightness tempered the dark ...

Stargazers across the UK were treated to a dazzling sight in the early hours of Wednesday as the Perseid meteor shower hit its annual peak. The Perseids light up the sky every summer and are said to ...