In 1833, hundreds of thousands of shooting stars inspired songs, prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins ...

The Leonid meteor shower has been active all month, but it will be at its strongest Saturday and Sunday nights, according to ...

Although the Leonids are one of the most famous of all the annual meteor displays we certainly would not advertise them as a ...

Most people have heard of meteor showers, when a few dozen shooting stars may dash across the night sky when the conditions ...

The annual Leonid meteor shower is coming this weekend. And while it may not be the brightest and most spectacular version of ...

We now know this was an outburst of the Leonid Meteor Shower, which occurs every November and usually produces about a dozen meteors per hour. However, the 1833 storm unleashed thousands of meteors a ...

That night, Leonid meteors did, briefly, fall like rain," EarthSky explained on its website. Two illustrations depicting the 1833 Leonid meteor storm. (Left image/Edmund Weiß, Right image/Adolf ...

The Leonids result from the Earth passing through the trail of the comet Tempel-Tuttle (55P/Tempel-Tuttle), which was first discovered in 1865. But meteor shower predates that: The 1833 event is ...

prophecies and a crowdsourced research paper on the origins of meteors Eli Wizevich History Correspondent A depiction of the 1833 Leonids, based on a first-person account of the 1833 storm by a ...