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By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 05/01/2012 04:39 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries Earth is under constant bombardment by space rocks. When they...
By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 05/01/2012 04:39 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries Earth is under constant bombardment by space rocks. When they...
AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 04.23.2012
RENO, Nev. -- Astronomers say a loud explosion heard across a large swath of Nevada and California on Sunday morning was likely caused by a meteor. T...
Posted 04.20.2012
By: Geoff Gaherty Published: 04/19/2012 10:00 AM EDT on SPACE.com This story was updated at 8:48 p.m. ET. The week ahead promises to be a perf...
Posted 04.16.2012
By: Mike Wall Published: 04/16/2012 12:31 PM EDT on SPACE.com An annual meteor shower peaks this weekend, a time when dark skies should make for...
Posted 04.10.2012
By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 04/10/2012 11:33 AM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries A great ball of fire streaked across the Texas sky during the...
Posted 02.24.2012
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/23/2012 05:20 PM EST on SPACE.com A strange breed of fireball is streaking through the skies this month, and N...
Posted 02.15.2012
Early Monday morning was very disturbing to many upstate South Carolina residents who witnessed an unidentified object streaking through the sky, expl...
A comet has been spotted disintegrating in the atmosphere of the sun for the first time. Such sun-diving comets are common but none have been seen...
AP | By MARCIA DUNN | Posted 12.05.2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Heads-up, meteor fans. As many as 750 meteors an hour are expected Saturday, as Earth travels through streams of dust and ice...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 11.16.2011
Whatever it was that streaked from west to east through the sky Wednesday night over several southwest states still has people wondering if it was a m...
Newser | Posted 05.25.2011
A meteor big enough to have ruined a lot of people's Valentine's Day streaked over the East Coast earlier this week, creating a rare daytime fireball....
Posted 05.25.2011
What appeared to be a "ball of fire" accompanied by a "mysterious flash of light" spotted in Oklahoma was actually a meteor that flashed across the ...
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
When our annual revolution takes us through zones heavily littered with disintegrated comet trash, we see the spectacular sky shows called meter showers.
AP | DINESH RAMDE | Posted 05.25.2011
MILWAUKEE — A large meteor streaked across the Midwestern sky momentarily turning night into day, rattling houses and causing trees and the grou...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
What was believed to have been a large meteor streaked over northern Illinois and other Midwestern states Wednesday night. Reports of meteor sighti...
Posted 05.25.2011
An apparent meteor in Wisconsin and Iowa lit up the sky around 10:10 p.m. Central Time last night. The 'fireball in the sky' was seen by hundreds, ...
Steven Newton | Posted 05.25.2011
The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered only two years before its passage by Earth, not nearly enough time to divert the comet. So much for the Deep Impact scenario.
Mail Online | Posted 05.25.2011
Pensioner Peter Welton was amazed when a piece of red-hot debris crashed through his roof in July. Now experts have confirmed the object had travelled...
Posted 05.25.2011
This amazing video, taken from CCTV footage, shows a meteor lighting up the sky over South Africa the weekend before last. One resident described the...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
RIGA, Latvia — Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revea...
Reuters | Scott Haggett | Posted 05.25.2011
A massive ball of fire that lit up the skies over two Western Canadian provinces on Thursday evening was likely among the biggest meteor events to be ...
Posted 05.02.2012