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A spectacular fireball seen across Slovakia and Hungary could have left fragments behind. At exactly 22:16 on Saturday, 5 ...
Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...
The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls and posts to the American Meteor Society (AMS), NASA’s recommended ...
AMS Operations Manager Mike Hankey speaks with 11Alive Meteorologist Melissa Nord the impacts of this rare bolide fireball.
The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...
Rare 'bolide' fireball falls from sky, sightings reported across metro Atlanta and broader Southeast Henry County Emergency Management reported a piece of meteorite fell through someone's roof.
"It felt like an earthquake or a big bomb going off.” 911 lines in Newton County lit up with anxious callers on June 26, wondering what happened when a massive boom and rattling disrupted what had ...
At 12:50am on 4 July 2025, a dazzling fireball illuminated the night sky above Scotland and parts of the UK, captivating ...
A fireball that streaked across the sky over Georgia was identified as a large meteor, and a piece of the space debris ...
A fireball is a very bright meteor – brighter than magnitude 4 – roughly equivalent to the brilliance of Venus in the morning or evening sky. A bolide is a specific type of fireball that ...
The fireball is believed to be a bolide—a rare, exceptionally bright meteor that can produce a sonic boom.