The best time to see the June Bootids in the U.S. is in the hours following sunset on the night of June 27, when the radiant ...

Fragments of the meteor that exploded over Georgia landed in Henry County and officials are sharing pictures of some of the fragments. The meteor was first seen at an altitude of 48 miles above the ...

Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...

Remnants of a cosmic 'fireball' object witnessed soaring across Georgia may have broken off and plummeted through the roof of ...

Henry County Emergency Management said a resident claimed a rock went through the roof into their home on Thursday.

The National Weather Service received multiple reports of a fireball visible just before noon in the skies above South ...

Perseid meteor shower: See photos of celestial show during peak activity Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, reached peak activity Sunday night.

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists ...

The Perseid meteor shower occurs over several nights in mid-August, peaking on 11 August. This very bright meteor was captured by camera in Haputale, Sri Lanka last week.

The people at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History were nice enough to give a couple members of the Chemistry in Pictures team a behind-the-scenes look at their mineral ...