An unusually intense spring 2026 fireball season has produced detection rates reportedly 3.9 standard deviations above historical norms, baffling scientists who cannot yet explain the surge. While ...
At 8:57 a.m. on March 17, a rock from space slammed into the atmosphere above Northern Ohio in broad daylight, releasing ...
NASA’s orbital debris program officially began in 1979. Lacking an official program designation at the time, it was initiated in the Space Sciences Branch at Johnson Space Center (JSC) as a result of ...
Dozens of people on social media are asking, "What was that?" after seeing something strange falling from the sky ...
The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree on what explains it.
Even as NASA’s Artemis II was in the middle of its epic sling around the moon, scientists like Brown University’s James Head III and John “Jack” Mustard said the mission had already changed what we ...
HOUSTON — NASA scientists, and the rest of the world, are beaming about the incredible images from the Artemis 2 flyby around the far side of the moon. On Monday (April 6), astronauts aboard NASA's ...
HOUSTON (CW39) — It was the fireball seen just north of Houston. On Saturday, March 21 at 4:40 p.m., the afternoon sky lit up with a streaking fireball, and moments later, people heard it. That’s how ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Have you ever looked up at a “shooting star” and wondered what you’re actually seeing? The terms meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid all describe the same object, but at different stages ...
A thunderous boom heard and felt widely across northeastern Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning was most likely the result of a meteor. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...
A piece of the sky fell this morning. A fireball seen throughout Ohio around 9 a.m. March 17 was a meteor, according to the National Weather Service of Cleveland. According to the American ...
A large meteor crashed through the sound barrier above northern Ohio on Tuesday morning, producing a large fireball and what local residents described as an extremely loud “boom.” According to various ...