It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Based on triangulation of those reports, the meteor was first seen over Greensboro traveling nearly due south toward Asheboro ...

Meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through streams of dust, rocks, metal, and ice, resulting in brilliant displays of light in the sky. The radiant spot is an optical illusion where meteors ...

A dazzling meteor lit up Karachi’s sky at 2:43 am, leaving residents in awe. The rare celestial event was captured on camera, ...

Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

To be considered a fireball, a meteor — a streak of light caused by a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere — needs to reach magnitude -4, which means it appears brighter than Venus in the ...

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a ...

This discovery reveals that meteoroid impacts on Mars occur twice as often as previously estimated, providing new insights into Martian seismic activity. A meteor struck Mars in February 2021 ...

An asteroid that landed in Russia in 2013 injured 1,500 people – and was just 20 metres in diameter. What could we do if a major threat was detected? Osiris-REx will spend the next year looking ...

path of meteor seen just after midnight, Saturday March 22 A meteor is the bright streak of light produced when a meteoroid—a small rock, likely a fragment of an asteroid—burns up upon ...