The meteorite landed in Prince Edward Island, caught with visual and sound on camera, and narrowly missing the cameras owner ...

A meteoroid believed to have entered the Earth's atmosphere above northern France has been seen lighting up the sky hundreds of miles away in Wales. Sar2667, just 1m (3ft) long, illuminated parts ...

Such events are generally associated with comets that orbit the sun, occurring when the Earth's orbit intersects with their paths and the meteoroid streams they leave behind. In the rare case of a ...

The mission, known as the Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer, or LUMIO, is a 12U CubeSat weighing around 22 kg. Its primary payload is the LUMIO-Cam, a visible light camera meant to detect flashes of ...

It came from the same direction as the most destructive meteoroid to impact Earth in a century, but it may be three times larger. And just like that asteroid that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk ...

To be considered a fireball, a meteor — a streak of light caused by a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere — needs to reach magnitude -4, which means it appears brighter than Venus in the ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower has a rather peculiar origin story. The Quadrantid meteor shower is active (and visible) between Dec. 28 and Jan. 12, and will peak overnight between Jan. 2 and Jan. 3 ...

A tiny rock fragment has hit the new James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror. The damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in the observatory's data but ...