The Geminid meteor shower is nearly 200 years old, according to known records — the first recorded observation was in 1833 from a riverboat on the Mississippi River — and is still going strong.

The new year will kick off with the Quadrantid meteor shower, which is set to peak early on Friday. The Quadrantids have the potential of 200 meteors an hour under perfect conditions, but most ...

At greatest activity, 60 to 120 meteors per hour should be seen during the 2025 Quadrantid meteor shower. However ... asteroid is really a piece of an old, "extinct" comet; perhaps a comet ...