The hunt is on for pieces of a meteor that crashed near Cairns, Australia, on Saturday night. The meteoroid fireball, which gave off a neon-green hue as it hurtled through the atmosphere, lit up the ...

A meteor is in the Earth's atmosphere, entering at high speed and burning up before hitting Earth. These are often called ...

A group in France devoted to tracking shooting stars managed to recover a fragment of the space rock, which landed in a field in Normandy. A piece of the meteoroid that astronomers predicted would hit ...

The SAR 2667 spanned 1 meter in size and created a fire ball over the skies in northern France. Astronomers spotted a meteoroid heading for Earth hours before it slammed into our planet’s atmosphere ...

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) was launched back in June 2008 to study the Moon. It was created with two Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) and the Wide Angle Camera to capture high-resolution ...

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short ...

— -- With one of NASA's defunct satellites crashing down to Earth this weekend, forgetting our more commonplace visitors from space, meteors, might be easy. But bear in mind that roughly 100 tons ...

Telescopes show impact spot in Jovian clouds. Be glad you weren't there. July 21, 2009 — -- If you live in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter, you probably had a rough day Sunday. Something -- ...