Created from debris trails from Halley’s Comet, the eta Aquariids can be seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...

Bill Cooke, the lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said data indicated that a meteor was moving west at roughly ...

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

WLKY viewer Jody Hill sent a video that his dashcam took while he was driving for Lyft around 1 a.m. near the news station. If you look in the upper center of the video, you'll see a meteor hit the ...

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

Created by the 55P/Tempel-Tuttle comet, Leonids will come from the Leo constellation, which rises in the eastern sky right around 2 a.m. local time for most of its run. This is a bigger meteor ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Glittering stars in the night sky aside, scientists have long known ... when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash-landed in the Allen Hills of ...

A "fireball" spotted hurtling through the sky in Lincolnshire was probably the ... into the correct orbit before eventually dropping down to Earth and burning up. "It was quite bright so it ...

Throughout the coming year ... to see meteor showers, eclipses and other celestial events. No matter where you live, you can look up and witness something beautiful in the sky.

The annual Perseid meteor shower ... photographed low down and close to the horizon. A trail caused by a satellite which has not changed brightness as it passes across the sky will look like ...