On Jan. 3, the cosmos will deliver a double feature you won’t want to miss, lighting up the winter sky with a glowing super moon and one of the year’s most anticipated meteor showers. Here's everything you need to know about this celestial event.

The Ursid Meteor Shower is a subtle but reliable annual celestial event that occurs each December around the winter solstice. It produces fewer streaks of light than more prolific meteor showers like the Geminids or Perseids, but arrives at a time of year when long nights and dark skies favor careful observers.

The Ursids are a yearly meteor shower that occurs when Earth passes through debris shed by Comet 8P/Tuttle, a short-period comet that circles the Sun approximately every 13.5 years.

Meteor activity is best observed from late evening through to dawn, with the hours before local sunrise often yielding the richest display as Earth rotates into the incoming stream.

You can tune in to see live views of the Geminid meteor shower as it peaks overnight on Dec. 13-14, thanks to a free livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Project. The annual shower occurs as Earth passes through the debris-strewn orbit of the ...

From dazzling meteor showers to dramatic eclipses visible across parts of the world, the year ahead offers many opportunities to witness life-changing celestial events. Here are the astronomical events you won’t want to miss in 2026.