Sydney resident Tom McCallister said he was waiting at traffic lights about 6pm when he saw the light appear in the sky. "It travelled right across in front of us and glowed a bri ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

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This is actually its heat. So, what we see isn't actually the falling rock. It's the glowing heat around it, racing across the sky. When lots of meteors fall all at once around the same place ...

While most meteors burn up as they fall toward Earth, some survive the trip and are then considered meteorites. The Lyrids can be surprising; while viewers can expect 10 to 20 meteors per hour ...

SEATTLE — When you think of meteor showers, you may think of the impressive Perseids in August. But April had a falling star display of its own as well. The Lyrid meteor shower peaked Monday night.

It occasionally produces a meteor storm, with several hundred meteors falling per hour – and has done so for millennia. Back in 1803, a journalist in Richmond, Virginia, estimated an hourly rate ...

Citizens of ancient China may have been speaking of the Lyrid shower when they witnessed meteors “falling like rain” back in 687 BCE. This cosmic phenomenon is named for the nearby ...

If you miss the Lyrids, you're in luck — you won’t have to wait long for another chance to catch falling stars. The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will be active from April 19 to May 28 ...

A meteoroid that manages to pass through the atmosphere and fall upon Earth's surface is called a meteorite," he said. According to experts, it was the first known incident in Marathwada of a ...

The bit of falling space rock, caught on camera in July, was confirmed to be a meteorite by the University of Alberta, which said that the footage was the first of its kind. The video shows the ...