On Monday afternoon, a New Jersey family reported an apparent meteorite crashed through their roof. Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident. Check out the crazy pictures!
The moon again refuses to cooperate with sky gazers in 2022 making the year a less-than-stellar one for meteor shower fans. Still, we have a few surprises in store including a brand new shoer, the Tau Herculids, which may be visible for the first time in 2022.
It’s that time of year again – the Earth is about to drive through the stream of debris that trails the Tempel-Tuttle comet – and that means METEOR SHOWER! The spectacular Leonid meteor shower will steak meteors from a point just below the head of the constellation Leo, the lion (hence the shower’s name -…
If you were paying close enough attention, you might have heard it whiz by. In what astronomers are calling a “surprise flyby”, a quarter-mile round asteroid buzzed the earth three days ago, passing just 119,500 miles from the Earth’s atmosphere – about half the distance between Earth and the moon.
Yesterday, authorities described it as “an explosion”. The incident, in which a 40-year-old man died and three others were injured, took place at the Bharathidasan Engineering College in Natrampalli, India on Saturday, February 6, 2016. Witnesses reported hearing a loud rumbling noise followed by an explosion which blew out windows of buses and buildings and…
Forget the often-disappointing Perseids meteor shower – Geminids is not only better, it’s predicted to be especially cool this weekend. The Geminids shower has been strengthening in recent years and already surpasses every meteor shower of the year. This year, we’re holding out hope that the show is even better than last year’s brilliant display.
Multiple sightings of an extraordinary yellow flash of light in the skies above Sverdlovsk, Russia on the night of November 14, 2014 have residents of the area scratching their heads. Scientists and local authorities are still unsure what caused the huge flash of light which “turned night into day”. Theories include military exercises, an explosion…
Researchers are still studying the video but thus far, the only explanation they can find is that the huge tumbling object that zooms mere feet by the falling skydiver is – a meteorite! If this turns out to the be real identity of the mysterious object, as thus far all evidence suggests it really is…
Authorities are reporting that a large, unidentified object has crashed in a desert in Tunisia. The space object, which authorities told panicked citizens was a meteorite, fell yesterday (Sunday, September 15, 2013) in a rural desert area of the Tataouine governorate, near the town of Remada in southern Tunisia. According to Radio Tataouine, witnesses reported…
A powerful meteor with the power of a 300-kiloton atomic bomb blasted the Russian region of the Urals early on Friday about 9:20 AM local time injuring over 1,000 people, hospitalizing more than 100 persons (two critically injured), damaging several hundred building structures (including a zinc factory that appears to have taken a direct hit),…
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