"The Geminids are bright and fast meteors and tend to be yellow in color," according to NASA. The Geminids are unique compared to most meteor showers because they are caused by a rocky object ...

The only meteor shower produced by an asteroid rather than a comet, the Geminids are not only the most numerous but the most colorful, too, with white, yellow and even green "shooting stars" possible.

A mysterious throbbing light seen racing behind clouds in the northeastern U.S. and Canada has been identified as a meteor, according to the American Meteor Society. One witness i ...

"Comets eject most debris as large sand-grain to pebble-sized particles, called meteoroids, that move in meteoroid streams and cause the visible meteors in our meteor showers," says Dr. Peter ...