A mysterious green light caught on camera in the night sky over Ontario was "most likely" a meteor, one expert said.

While most meteor showers originate from comets, the Quadrantids come from asteroid 2003 EH1 — a small asteroid that was ...

Meteors are the result of small particles entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, typically around 40km per second for the Quadrantids. The pieces of debris heat up due to friction with the air ...

Meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through the rubble trailing a comet or an asteroid as it swings around the sun. This debris, which can be as small as a grain of sand, leaves behind a ...

Future Publishing via Getty Images While the meteor shower typically falls around the same time each year, conditions like the moonlight, poor weather outlooks and the small six-hour window to ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaks overnight on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The Geminids are active between Nov. 19 to Dec. 24 each year. This year, the moon will not interfere too much with Geminid meteor ...

Meteor showers occur on a predictable schedule ... it wasn't until 2003 that an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona discovered a small asteroid, 2003 EH1, was the source of the shower.