Have you ever looked up at a “shooting star” and wondered what you’re actually seeing? The terms meteor, meteorite, and ...

A loud boom heard and felt widely across parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday was likely the result of a meteor.

A bright fireball appeared over the US and Canada in March 2026. NASA reported that the fireball was caused by a small asteroid approximately 6 feet in diameter and weighing around 7 tons.

It was the fireball seen just north of Houston. On Saturday, March 21 at 4:40 p.m., the afternoon sky lit up with a streaking ...

(WYTV)- Twice within a week now, we’ve had bright meteors flash across Ohio skies. One broke apart and peppered Medina County, the other disintegrated over Saginaw Bay, Michigan. First, definitions: ...

A bright fireball that was spotted Saturday afternoon in the skies over southeastern Texas was confirmed to be a meteor that ...

WEST UNITY, Ohio (WKBN) – Video from the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission shows a second meteor that lit up the ...

Meteoroid impacts represent one of the most dynamic interactions between extraterrestrial bodies and the Earth’s atmosphere. When meteoroids enter the atmosphere, they experience rapid deceleration ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

NASA notes that we're now in peak fireball season, a time period that typically runs from February through April.

Phase C of the ESA LUMIO mission begins: a CubeSat will monitor impact flashes on the Moon’s far side to improve knowledge of ...

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short ...