On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

Stargazers will get a treat this weekend! The Leonid Meteor Shower, an annual meteor shower that has some of the fastest shooting stars—around 44 miles per second!—is enchanting the sky in a few days.

When a fireball from space crashed into the rocky plains of southeast Morocco in September, Mohamed Benitjit topped up the credit on his mobile phone and packed a bag with a tiny magnet and a few ...

P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center; and M. Breukers and C. Johannink, Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS), BeNeLux, report that the chi Cygnids meteor shower (IAU ...

It never feels good to miss cosmic events like Tuesday night’s surprise Northern Lights or even last month’s Orionids meteor shower, but the good news is that they’re not as rare as they seem. Spend ...

The Northern Taurids Meteor Shower is active from October 20th to December 10th but the shower will peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. The Northern Taurid Meteor Shower is active from Oct. 20 ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - An apparent meteor was captured on a home security camera in Gulfport Thursday evening. James Short sent in a video of what appears to be a shooting star streaking across the ...

A beautiful sky show is on the way as the annual Leonids Meteor Shower prepares to brighten the night once again. The event happens every year, but mid-November is when it becomes most stunning. This ...

Tucson is the epicenter of a meteorite hunt after a shower of space rocks landed north of the city Tuesday night. The event began at 7:11 p.m. with a window-rattling sonic boom, as a massive fireball ...