The strongest meteor shower of the year is expected to peak this week, bringing bright, long streaks of light across the ...

A bright fireball was spotted across seven states, including Ohio, on Nov. 28. The Cincinnati Observatory confirmed its first-ever discovery of micrometeorites on November 30. Micrometeorites were ...

Cincinnati was eating leftover turkey and getting ready for snow when space news arrived In just two days, the country’s oldest public observatory shared a video of a bright fireball in Cincinnati’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Long trail of a meteorite in the sky. Meteoroid against the ...

The Geminid meteor shower, characterized by bright, slow-moving meteors, is distinct as its parent body is identified as the asteroid 3200 Phaethon, unlike most meteor showers which originate from ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — An extraterrestrial visitor lit up the night sky across Michigan on Sunday evening. The bright flash, caused by a falling meteoroid, could be seen from Jackson to the Upper ...

A fireball disintegrated in the sky over Eureka Springs on Saturday night, possibly strewing meteorites from the tourist town northwest to Gateway. Or, it may have burned up entirely as it entered the ...

A FOX6 tower camera captured an apparent meteor over Milwaukee on Wednesday. A meteor is a streak of light that appears in the sky when a small piece of space debris, often called a meteoroid, enters ...

St. Louis witnesses the 2026 Quadrantid meteor shower peak Jan 3-4; bright fireballs visible near Bootes despite full moon ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is active from Dec. 26 to Jan. 16, 2026, and will peak Jan. 3-4, 2026, though viewing will be ...

The Leonid meteor shower is anticipated to peak during the late hours of November 16th into the early morning of November 17th, with favorable viewing conditions afforded by a less than 10% ...

Multiple fragments of the space rock that tore through a home about 65 miles southwest of Athens were recently analyzed at the University of Georgia to determine its origin. A geologist at the ...