The Perseid meteor shower is expected to be especially breathtaking this year. Getty Images/iStockphoto. NASA reports that the main event will kick off around 10 p.m. Saturday.

Most people who spotted the meteor Wednesday night reported seeing it between 6:45 and 7 p.m. EST, the data shows, and most individual sightings lasted from 1 to 7 1/2 seconds.

Tennessee stargazers have a chance to see some celestial fireballs the next few weeks. Here's when to watch and where.

The Geminid meteor shower, one of the best of the year, put on a brilliant show Dec. 13 amid a near-moonless sky. More shooting stars are expected tonight.

If you weren't awake to catch a glimpse of the unusually bright meteor that streaked across the Colorado sky on Sunday, you're in luck: plenty of video was captured of the astrological event ...

The Taurid meteor stream, which includes both the Southern Taurids and the Northern Taurids, comes from the Comet Enke, a 2.98 mile-wide body that orbits the sun just over every three years.

The ‘scary’ fireball that witnesses saw shooting across the sky in several U.S. states on June 26 has been identified. NASA confirmed to PEOPLE that the moving object was a meteor caused by a ...

The Eta Aquariids meteor shower starts producing shooting stars as early as April 20 and as late as May 21, according to the AMS. During its peak period, it can generate 10 to 30 meteors per hour ...

Fireball stuns the Southeast after meteor explodes over Georgia 01:30. A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia ...

A meteor burned up in the atmosphere high above Louisville Tuesday morning.WLKY viewer Jody Hill sent a video that his dashcam took while he was driving for Lyft around 1 a.m. near the news station.