Oct.'s Orionid meteor shower is here
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Don't miss the Orionid meteor shower peak begin overnight tonight under a moonless sky
The 2025 Orionid meteor shower peak begins overnight on Oct. 20-21, when 10-20 shooting stars may be visible streaking across the night sky from a point of origin known as a "radiant", located close to the red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion.
A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting as it neared the surface.
We got many reports around our area very early this morning of a fireball meteor that had got into Earth's atmosphere and fragmented over our area being visible from the