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A bright flash seen over Kyiv was probably a meteorite, Ukraine's space agency said Thursday, after officials denied it was a satellite or a Russian missile attack.The head of the city's military administration had said that the flash was…

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up. If you're the first to find a really big one, a museum says…

Meteors are objects in space which enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn up, and are visible in the form of fireballs or “shooting stars”. If the meteor falls on the surface of the planet without burning up completely, it is…

Several people observed a meteorite illuminating the skies in Texas a few days ago on February 15 as it transformed into a fireball. While these space rocks usually have close encounters with Earth, they rarely come close enough to crash.…

Asteroids often make close approaches to Earth, and they mostly do so without causing any harm. However, there is no guarantee that an asteroid will not hit Earth in the future. If history has taught us anything, nothing in life is…

On February 15, 2013, 10 years ago, a 59-foot wide meteorite exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The explosion caused the meteorite to break down into small rocks which rained on the city. While it did not cause any loss of…

A new study posits that interstellar cloud conditions may have played a significant role on the presence of key building blocks of life in the solar system. A new study led by Southwest Research Institute Research Scientist Dr. Danna…

A meteor that lit up the night sky over southwest Norway as it burned up in the atmosphere was from the Taurid meteor shower. A meteor that lit up the night sky over southwest Norway as it burned up in the atmosphere was from the Taurid…

The 2nd ever interstellar meteor that crashed into Earth was speeding at a shocking 144000 kmph, NASA shows. In 2014, a meteor was observed by NASA sensors. Back then, it wasn't thought to be of much importance apart from the fact that…