A Satellite That Fires Fake Shooting Stars Is Ready to Launch
Night Light Astro Live Experiences, the company that wants to illuminate the night sky with artificial shooting stars, is nearly ready for its cosmic debut. The tiny satellite, ALE-2, will be launched...
View ArticleChina Discovers “Unusual” Shard on Far Side Of The Moon
Rock On A Chinese rover has discovered an unusually-shaped rock, suspected to be a piece of a meteor, wedged into the surface of the Moon. According to Space.com, China’s Yutu-2 rover made its...
View ArticleThis Meteor Exploded So Violently That It Shook Entire Buildings Below
Dramatic Entrance On Sunday night, a meteor rocketed over Vermont before exploding in such a powerful blast that people could hear it from miles away as it shook cars and buildings below. The fireball,...
View ArticleIncredibly Rare Asteroid Fragments Land on Couple's Driveway
Close Impact A UK couple got the surprise of a lifetime when they discovered pieces of a meteorite had landed on their driveway early last week. The space rocks landed near the home of Rob and...
View ArticleAncient Antarctica Was Blasted by a Giant Flamethrower From Space
Blast Zone About 430,000 years ago, a powerful blast of superheated gas and air incinerated the surface of Antarctica. The hellish inferno came down from space like a gigantic flamethrower after a...
View ArticleGiant Asteroid Hits Europe After NASA Fails to Stop It, In a Simulation
A massive asteroid struck eastern Europe, triggering a crisis of historical proportions. Fortunately, the asteroid was purely fictional. The space rock was invented by a team of experts at NASA to...
View ArticleVideo Shows Massive Meteor Lighting Up Entire Night Sky
Meteor Strike A large meteor hurtled over Norway on Monday night, lighting up the sky over most of southern Scandinavia in a burst of light. It was such a violent event, the Associated Press reports,...
View ArticleVideos Shows Meteor Explosion Turning Sky an Eerie Green
Meteor Shower Last Saturday night, a meteor burned its way into the atmosphere and caused an explosion that appeared to light the night sky over İzmir, Turkey an eerie shade of green. Here's a...
View ArticleMeteor May Have Caused Huge Explosion Over New Hampshire, Scientists Say
Whodunnit The sound of an earth-shattering boom rocked New Hampshire while the ground shook on Sunday morning, in a statewide incident that left both state residents and experts baffled. Now,...
View ArticlePittsburgh Shaken by Exploding Meteor
In With a Bang Folks in western Pennsylvania got some unexpected New Year's fireworks when they heard a massive, Earth-shaking boom in the sky on Saturday. It wasn’t that type of explosion in the sky,...
View Article2013 Meteor May Have Been Involved in Creating the Moon
Moon Rocks The Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earth's Moon, according to a new study published this week in the...
View ArticleResidents Hear Loud Boom That Turns Out to Be a Meteor
Southern Heat More than 30 people in three Southern states reported seeing a bright fireball shooting through the sky Thursday morning. According to a Facebook post from local emergency management...
View ArticleVideos Show Meteor So Bright It Lit the Entire Sky
Fire in the Sky In the earliest hours of Saturday morning, residents of Indiana and several surrounding states — or at least their video-enabled doorbells — were treated to an awe-inspiring surprise: a...
View ArticleEarth's Continents Were Created by Epic Meteor Impacts, Scientists Say
The Beginning Earth's continents were created by giant meteor impacts, according to a group of scientists studying ancient rock formations in Australia. Coauthor Tim Johnson said in a statement that...
View ArticleExperts Puzzled by Harvard Scientist Looking for Alien Wreckage in Ocean
In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, most eyes are on the sky. At least one scientist, though, thinks we should be searching the ocean floor. That researcher, Avi Loeb — who we’ve...
View ArticleVideo Shows Vivid Green Meteor Screaming Over Residential Area
Fly-By On Wednesday night, thousands of onlookers in Ireland and the UK watched in awe as the green fireball of a low flying meteor streaked across the night sky of residential areas. First spotted...
View ArticleIncredible Videos Capture Meteor Burning Up Over European Skies
Lights, Camera A meteor burned up while traveling through Earth's atmosphere over the weekend — and lucky skywatchers in Europe were treated to an incredible light show. Known as Sar2667, this meteor...
View ArticleMeteor Explodes Over Texas, Causing Epic Noise and Scattering Debris
Lone Fireball State Unwitting civilians in southern Texas were in for a loud surprise when a sizable meteor exploded in the sky. The sonic space rock flew over McAllen around 6pm on Wednesday,...
View ArticleExperts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine
Flash of Light An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation. A video shared by Ukraine's...
View ArticleHarvard Scientist Planning New Expedition to Hunt for Bigger Chunks of...
In January 2014, a three-foot meteor screamed through our atmosphere at the blistering speed of 134,200 mph and crash-landed somewhere in Papua New Guinea. Since then, the event has acquired mythic...
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