Meteors
Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860
“Year of meteors! Brooding year!” -Walt Whitman July 20th is a red letter date in space history. Apollo 11, the…
Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts?
We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn't, right? Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a…
Possible Meteorite Fragments from 1908 Tunguska Explosion Found
The 1908 explosion over the Tunguska region in Siberia has always been an enigma. While the leading theories of what…
Cassini Watches as Meteors Hit Saturn’s Rings
From tell-tale evidence, we know that Earth, our Moon and other bodies in our Solar System are constantly barraged with…
Bright Meteor Rocks Argentina Rock Concert
Talk about a light show! A massive bolide was captured on video during a middle-of-the-night rock concert in Argentina on…
The Curious History of the Lyrid Meteor Shower
Today we residents of planet Earth meet up with a meteor stream with a strange and bizarre past. The Lyrid…
Friday Night Lights: Fireball Lights Up the U.S. East Coast
Last night a bright meteor was spotted up and down the northern mid-Atlantic United States from Maryland to Manhattan to…
Russian Asteroid Explosion and Past Impactors Paint a Potentially Grim Future for Earth
The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor…
Giant Ancient Impact Crater Confirmed in Iowa
A monster lurks under northeastern Iowa. That monster is in the form of a giant buried basin, the result of…
Big Meteorite Chunk Found in Russia’s Ural Mountains
Scientists and meteorites hunters have been on a quest to find bits of rock from the asteroid which exploded over…