Two meteor showers are peaking this month.The Draconid meteor shower started Monday night and will be active until Oct. 10, hitting its peak on the evening of Oct. 8 into the early morning of Oct. 9.

So far, 2026 has offered up some celestial spectacles, including a total lunar eclipse and a planetary parade. But the ...

Cincinnati was eating leftover turkey and getting ready for snow when space news arrived. In just two days, the country’s oldest public observatory shared a video of a bright fireball in Cincinnati’s ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is active (and visible) between Dec. 28 and Jan. 12, and will peak overnight Jan. 3-4. Viewing conditions for the Quadrantids are bad for 2026 as there will be a 100% ...

Clear skies at the Vollink Family Observatory let Southeast Missouri State University students and locals spot meteors, comets and Saturn’s moons, highlighting the unique value of campus astronomy ...

Avid sky-gazers spend all year anticipating the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Now, it’s finally here. This weekend, dozens of meteors, including some especially brilliant ones called ...

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As if the beasts and baddies on the ground weren’t enough, now there are meteors falling from the sky in 99 Nights in the Forest, scattering Meteor Shards in their wake. In the night, if you’re lucky, ...

A bright fireball was spotted across seven states, including Ohio, on Nov. 28. The Cincinnati Observatory confirmed its first-ever discovery of micrometeorites on November 30. Micrometeorites were ...