A meteorite has been captured lighting up skies over Western Australia on “as a fist-sized chunk of space rock slammed” into ...

Residents in four provinces have reported a large, fiery meteor streaking across the sky in the early hours of Sunday morning ...

Western University expands use of meteor cameras to track contrails and tackle aviation-induced climate change ...

When they enter Earth's atmosphere, they burn up, resulting in meteors. If a bigger piece falls to Earth, that becomes a meteorite. “If you have larger chunks of material, it will take longer to burn ...

August, is a spectacular celestial display caused by Earth passing through the debris trail of comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, ...

This week that drought ends, though. Earth is passing through the stream of dust, ice, and gravel left behind in space by a comet known as C/1861 G1 (Thatcher). As those bits of debris are swept up by ...

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on the ...

As those bits of debris are swept up by Earth's atmosphere, they produce brief, sometimes exceptionally bright flashes of light. This is the Lyrid meteor shower, and it reaches its peak over Earth ...

An astronomical event is predicted for August 2025 when the Perseid meteor shower and the conjunction of Jupiter with Venus ...

Each occurs due to a meteoroid plunging through Earth's upper atmosphere. Meteoroids travel at incredible speeds through the atmosphere, ranging between 11-71 km/s.