A meteor is in the Earth's atmosphere, entering at high speed and burning up before hitting Earth. These are often called ...

Last June, a small meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia, before landing in the living room. This fragment of space rock, now officially named the McDonough meteorite, has ...

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of fiery light that appeared above his Cantonment home without a sound. "To ...

The shower is produced by Halley’s comet’s debris, and could offer strong viewing opportunities because the moon is new this ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...