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 ...

They flash across the night sky in seconds, sparking wishes and wonder. But these mysterious streaks hold far more secrets ...

Last Friday%27s meteor display shocked%2C awed East Coast A meteroid hit Russia%2C injuring 1%2C100%2C weeks ago But experts say most space debris burns up in the ...

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 ...

Meteoroid impacts represent one of the most dynamic interactions between extraterrestrial bodies and the Earth’s atmosphere. When meteoroids enter the atmosphere, they experience rapid deceleration ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

— -- 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 -- ...