It's not the most powerful shower of the year, yielding only about 10 shooting stars each hour, but in 2024, it peaks just hours after the northern hemisphere's winter solstice on Saturday ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Where do shooting stars come from? It’s long been known that meteors are caused by meteorites striking Earth’s atmosphere ...

They step carefully through the crowd, before beginning work on a dance called ‘Shooting stars’, based on careful hand movements and controlled spins. Warm up: working with a partner ...