Fireball
Space Force is Releasing Decades of Tracking Data on a Thousand Bright Meteor Fireballs
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a…
Satellites Watched a Huge Fireball Explode Above the Bering Sea Late Last Year
NASA's Terra satellites recently spotted a fiery meteorite in Earth's atmosphere, which exploded above the Bering Sea.
Super Bright Fireball Spotted Across U.S. Northeast
It came from outer space—literally! On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, the early morning sky briefly lit up with the brilliant…
Kick Back, Look Up, We’re In For a GREAT Perseid Meteor Shower
Every year in mid-August, Earth plows headlong into the debris left behind by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Slamming into our atmosphere at 130,000…
Flaming Space Junk Makes Jaws Drop in Australia
"It first looked like a plane with fire coming out of the tail." -- Aaron O. "I have never seen…
Eureka! Kola Fireball Meteorites Found in Russia
A spectacular fireball that crackled across the sky near the Russia-Finnish border on April 19th this year left more than a bright…
Happy 1st Anniversary Chelyabinsk! The Fireball that Woke Up the World
Wonder and terror. Every time I watch the dashcam videos of the Chelyabinsk fireball it sends chills down my spine.…
Three-Meter Asteroid Hits Earth’s Atmosphere… Somewhere
This was very likely the last trip around the Sun for the Earth-crossing asteroid 2014 AA, according to calculations by…
Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860
“Year of meteors! Brooding year!” -Walt Whitman July 20th is a red letter date in space history. Apollo 11, the…
Friday Night Lights: Fireball Lights Up the U.S. East Coast
Last night a bright meteor was spotted up and down the northern mid-Atlantic United States from Maryland to Manhattan to…