Your first major opportunity to spot shooting stars and bright fireballs in 2026 arrives overnight tonight with the peak of ...

The spectacular Quadrantid meteor shower is active until 12 January, peaking between 3 to 4 January 2026 across the UK.

Meteor showers promise a diverse and exciting year for sky gazing in 2026, ranging from brief and bright outbursts at rapid ...

But as bad as it is for the Quadrantids this year, it will be a very different story in 2028.

Although it's not as famous as August's Perseids or December's Geminids, January's Quadrantids can be just as prolific. This ...

Under ideal conditions, about 25 Quadrantid meteors would be visible per hour, according to NASA. While the meteors are known to lack persistent tails, they often produce bright fireballs, which are ...

Meteor activity is best observed from late evening through to dawn, with the hours before local sunrise often yielding the richest display as Earth rotates into the incoming stream.

The Quadrantids (QUA) will be the inaugural meteor shower for the brand new year 2026. With a zenith hourly rate (ZHR) as ...

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

Two astronomical phenomena — a supermoon and a meteor shower — will collide in Western Pennsylvania skies Saturday.

Catch the wolf supermoon and Quadrantid meteor shower as January’s night sky puts on a celestial double feature.

The experts also add that this meteor shower is famous for it’s ‘fireballs’; extremely bright meteors. “To see this shower, ...