Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...
The Taurids will peak on Wednesday, Nov. 5. The meteor shower consists of the Southern Taurids and the Northern Taurids. The two streams typically produce about five meteors per hour, though it could ...
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in ...
The Leonids once produced "one of the greatest meteor storms in living memory. Rates were as high as thousands of meteors per minute during a 15-minute span" on Nov. 17, 1966." ...
The shower is caused by Earth's passage through the Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle debris trail, running from November 3 to December ...