Fireball, Meteor, Comet

As explained in one of my prior posts, space agencies around the world took part in a NASA simulation of an asteroid-impact scenario. The...

NASA will run an asteroid impact simulation event over the course of the week as the space agency ups its game in the pursuit...

The impact that wiped out the dinosaurs would probably have killed you too — unless you were in the exact right place and had made...

DID YOU SEE IT? A strange flash of light has been spotted and reported by many in South Florida Monday night... WOAH! Big flash and streak...

What is this strange luminous object flying right into the volcanic peak on March 31, 2021, just a few hours prior its 17th paroxymal...

A research team of international space scientists, led by Dr. Matthias van Ginneken from the University of Kent's School of Physical Sciences, has found...

DID YOU SEE IT? Many people in Oregon were left stunned Thursday night as they spotted what looked like a large meteor breaking apart in...

A huge meteor fireball exploded over Sulawesi, Indonesia on March 16, 2021, turning night into day for a few seconds. The meteorite explosion was accompanied...

Astronomers detected thousands of previously unknown near-Earth asteroids last year. And this record may be broken this year AGAIN... Two weeks ago, a 340-metre-wide space...

Have you ever heard a meteor? Usually, meteors are too far away to make any audible sound. However, a meteor will briefly create an ionization trail...

Some 66 million years ago, a city-size asteroid barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and slammed into the shallow waters off the Yucatán Peninsula in the...

UK scientists and meteor experts have recovered pieces of a rare meteorite on March 3, 2021, just days after it entered Earth’s atmosphere and...

A massive asteroid is making a flyby of Earth on March 21. We've known about this kilometre-wide space rock for nearly 20 years, and...

An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower, dubbed Apophis (an ancient Egyptian demon), will zip past Earth Friday (March 5) and be out...

On February 23, 2021, a very bright bolide was seen fragmenting in the night sky over Mallorca and other Balearic Islands in the middle...

OMG! This was a spectacular fireball. Did you also see this bright green meteor explode over Melbourne, Australia tonight? According to Facebook comments, the space...

A meteorite destroyed a roof before crashing in a village in Central Lampung, Indonesia on January 28, 2021 at 10:00 pm, local time. According to...

Joe Biden's reign as US president is due to get off to a rocky start - a barrage of asteroids are set to make...

What were these loud booms accompanied by bright flash of light over Allegan County, Michigan? And did many of you also observe a huge flaming...

What was this giant ball of fire disintegrating in the night sky over China? People in the northwestern China's Yushu City were left baffled...

Did you hear that loud bang over central New York on Wednesday just after noon Eastern time? Did you also feel your house shaking? You...

After Spain, now 3 fireballs explode in the night sky over Brazil

If you like meteor fireballs, you will love these videos captured over Spain. Enjoy!

An asteroid, roughly the size of a Ford F-150, flew less than 250 miles away from Earth on Nov. 13 at 5:20 UTC. Doing so, 2020...

A giant green fireball was captured by space cameras across Sweden at 10.27pm on November 7, 2020. The Norwegian Meteor Network received close to 100...

If you see a fireball this week, it's probably a piece of Comet 2P/Encke, source of the annual Northern Taurid meteor shower. Enjoy the show!

In October 2020, the sky was on fire. This video from the American Meteor Society features the major meteor events that occurred around the world. Enjoy...

A small asteroid will fly close to Earth today, the eve of the US presidential election. There is a chance this small asteroid will enter our atmosphere...

NASA is warning of yet another five asteroids headed our way in the first half of this week, as the agency’s leading asteroid expert...

A fireball was spotted in the night sky above north-eastern Mexico on Tuesday, as Hurricane Delta made landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula and several...

Today is a big day for close-approach asteroids as three are set to skim past Earth. The largest could be up to 272 feet wide...

A superbolide was recorded flying over the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, Brazil on October 1, 2020. The official video...

The Earth is constantly in the line of fire from space rocks. Some pass us by, some crash through the atmosphere and burn up as bright fireballs soaring...

Gold miners in the Australian Outback recently discovered a gigantic meteorite crater dating to about 100 million years ago. Found near the Western Australian...

Two 100-meter-wide asteroids are set to cross Earth’s orbit within hours of each other on Friday, September 25, 2020. Meanwhile, another space rock the size...

We have not yet found all the large, potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, as highlighted by the recent discovery of a kilometer-size asteroid. Amateur astronomer Leonardo Amaral...

Thousands of people have rushed to a remote Santa Filomena in northeastern Brazil after hundreds of chunks of a huge meteorite began to fall 'like...