No matter how many shooting stars you’ve seen, every one remains magical. A quick streak of brilliant light racing across the sky, a lingering shimmer trailing behind, and a silent wish for a ...

As shooting stars blaze across the sky, at roughly 62 miles (100 km) altitude, they leave behind a trail of atoms and molecules. Sometimes you can see shooting stars with distinct colors ...

I saw a shooting star tonight; as it burnt up in the atmosphere, it became a brilliant green. I have seen only yellow and white ones before. What causes the green color?

The Geminid display delivers up to 120 shooting stars per hour. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ... then we can see a bright color and different colors in these meteors.

The Quadrantid meteor shower — one of the best annual meteor showers — will be peaking overnight from Thursday to Friday, producing "fireball" brightness and up to 120 shooting stars per hour.

French says the best time to get a shot at seeing the lights and shooting stars is after midnight. “Just get into a dark area, ya know, get away from bright city lights,” continued French.