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

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through streams of dust, rocks, metal, and ice, resulting in brilliant displays of ...

Video of a fireball streaking across the Bay of Plenty night sky has surfaced online. A post on the Facebook page said team ...

The hunt is on in Hawke’s Bay for New Zealand’s 11th meteorite after a fireball was filmed streaking across the night sky. And one meteorite-hunter believes someone’s securi ...

NASA scientist Dr. Marc Fries explains that meteoroids survived as leftover space debris from the solar system’s birth since they failed to develop into planets. The meteoroids generate bright streaks ...

A fireball is a bright meteor that could result in a meteorite falling to the ground. A meteor is a streak in the sky caused by a meteoroid entering Earth’s atmosphere, usually at more than 70,000km/h ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...