Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet constellation, has put over 6,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites into space, ostensibly to provide people with affordable, quality internet even in remote ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

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

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

WLKY viewer sends video of meteor burning up in atmosphere in Louisville ...

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 ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

The rising popularity of doorbell cameras has created a whole new genre of shocking moments captured on video, including many ...

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

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.