The meteor shower is usually considered the best of the year. NASA explained Aug. 4 why stargazers might not want to watch it in 2025.

The highly anticipated Perseid meteor shower of 2025 is expected to disappoint skywatchers due to an unlikely celestial culprit: the near-full Sturgeon Moon. According to the American Meteor Society (AMS),

Meteor showers happen when Earth passes through streams of cosmic debris known as meteoroids that enter Earth's atmosphere at high speeds. The point in the sky where they appear i