A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting as it neared the surface.
The Taurid meteor streams have a reputation for generating impressive fireball meteors.
The annual Orionid meteor shower comes to a peak on Oct. 20-21
The Delta Aurigids 2025 will make for a challenging skywatching event, here's why.
The Draconid meteor shower peaks on Oct. 8, as a waning gibbous moon graces the night sky.
This quiz will take you on a journey through fiery facts, explosive history, and the science behind these fireballs.
This skywatching quiz will test your meteor shower mastery — from fiery streaks to cosmic origins.
Orionid meteors become visible when debris from Halley's Comet collides with Earth's atmosphere.
A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago.
The shooting stars appear to emanate from a patch of space in the constellation Perseus.
