The best time to watch the Perseid meteor shower is after midnight, with the most meteors usually showing up between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m. This is when the sky is darkest, and the part of the sky where ...

Any meteors you do see at that time are going to be called Earth grazers,” said Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor ...

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 ...

Did you take a moment to look up last night or early this morning? If you did, chances are you caught a glimpse of one of the summer's most dazzling meteor showers, the Perseids, which peaked today.