After witnessing a string of fireballs streak across the sky in North America in 1860, the landscape painter rendered the scene from memory, capturing the peculiar beauty and perhaps incomprehensible ...

The reason why the Lyrid meteor shower remains famous is its history. It occasionally produces a meteor storm, with several hundred meteors falling per hour – and has done so for millennia.

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through a trail of dust from asteroids or comets, the dust burns up in Earth's atmosphere resulting in shooting stars.

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

THE STEAMSHIP METEOR.; History of the Vessel--Why She Was Built, and for What-How She has been Employed-Her Dimensions, &c, ...

The National Weather Service received multiple reports of a fireball visible just before noon in the skies above South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.

A bright green meteor was seen zooming past Sydney on Sunday as spectacular southern lights lit up the skies across most of Australia and New Zealand. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest-known on record, is set to return this month.

125 years ago in 1899, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: Eyes were on the sky in November 1899 for Leonids meteor shower Brilliant fall of meteors is expected ...

The Geminids meteor shower is relatively young in the history of meteor showers and was only first observed in the mid-19th century.