The Perseids pass through our atmosphere every year when the Earth orbits through debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet. Experts say the best chance to spot a meteor begins just after midnight and ...

The phenomenon brings up to 100 meteors an hour, as the Earth slams into the debris left behind from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. As the debris hits the Earth's atmosphere it burns up, resulting in ...

For example, the Perseids meteor shower is named after the constellation Perseus, and the meteors are pieces of the comet Swift-Tuttle ...

The Perseid meteors are fragments of ice and rock ejected by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which swing into the inner solar system every 133 years. When Earth passes through this stream of debris each year ...