Jan.'s supermoon collides with a meteor shower tonight
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TONIGHT is your last real chance to spy a blazing fireball from the 2025 Geminid meteor shower. It’s the final major meteor shower of the year, and it ends tonight. Meteor showers happen
The spectacular Geminid meteor shower of 2025 kicks off Thursday night, Dec. 4, with shooting stars and bright multi-colored fireballs expected to light up the December sky amid tonight's full moon rising. Here's when, where and what to watch for.
The shower is expected to peak on the nights of November 16 and 17, with the best viewing times between midnight and dawn. Viewers can expect to see about three to 15 fast, bright meteors per hour, including possible fireballs. Viewing conditions will be ...
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Cool space stuff you don’t want to miss in 2026, including a Canadian who’s heading to the moon
This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory that will change our views on the universe in ways we have yet to understand.
Today sees the beginning of the Geminids, the most prolific meteor shower of the year. A meteor shower that favours the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a display often overlooked by skywatchers despite the potential to produce up to 120 “shooting stars” in ...
The Quadrantids, Lyrids – and the always popular Perseids and Geminids – are set to dance across the night sky, along with other major showers this year. Here’s when you can spot all the major celestial shows.
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Don’t Miss These Ten Celestial Events in 2026, From Aligned Planets to a Total Solar Eclipse
The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since April 2024