Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

Warmer weather means more time to get outdoors and see what's above. A meteor shower that has been observed for 2,700 years ...

Bill Cooke, the lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said data indicated that a meteor was moving west at roughly ...

Video of a fireball streaking across the Bay of Plenty night sky has surfaced online. A post on the Facebook page said team ...

A fireball is a bright meteor that could result in a meteorite falling to the ground. A meteor is a streak in the sky caused by a meteoroid entering Earth’s atmosphere, usually at more than 70,000km/h ...

Interestingly, meteors from Lyrids tend to not have trails but can produce some pretty bright fireballs. The 1P/Halley, famously known as Halley's Comet, is responsible for the Eta Aquariids ...

A radar site on February 21 detected several objects flying through the Earth’s atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and ...

A young man shared how a meteorite shocked the people of the Eastern Cape in Jeffrey’s Bay as it hit the ocean. Residents in ...

Explaining the natural phenomenon, Dr Ashley King from the Natural History Museum told Mirror Online: "Meteors (often called shooting stars) are the bright streaks of light in the sky when dust ...

The hunt is on in Hawke’s Bay for New Zealand’s 11th meteorite after a fireball was filmed streaking across the night sky. And one meteorite-hunter believes someone’s securi ...

Almost all the material is vaporized in Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a bright trail fondly called “shooting stars.” Several meteors per hour can usually be seen on any given night.