Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

The Lyrid meteor shower will reach a peak later this month, but stargazers can catch a first glimpse beginning Wednesday ...

It’s said that if you catch one in the night sky the universe might grant you a wish. On any given night, shooting stars are ...

That’s fast enough to cross the entire United States in about 5 minutes. Sometimes, the orbit of a meteoroid overlaps with Earth, and the meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere – where it burns ...

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

A meteoroid is a small rock ... and consequently is sometimes known as a space snowball. These usually orbit the Sun and can be several miles in diameter. The debris from comets are responsible ...