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"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 ...
Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...
NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT.
Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...
Emergency officials are investigating reports that a piece of the meteorite may have penetrated the roof of a Georgia home.
While thinking of space as one big rubbish tip isn’t nice, one perk of all this cosmic filth is meteor showers, which light ...
20 tons of TNT What we know: NASA says the meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere at 12:25 p.m. EDT on June 26, first appearing 48 miles above Oxford, Georgia.
Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...
Multiple reports have come in from across the Carolinas about a possible meteor or fireball falling from the sky.
The American Meteor Society has received nearly 150 reports of a fireball spotted around 12:24 p.m. Eastern time.
Multiple reports have come in from across the Carolinas about a possible meteor or fireball falling from the sky.
A meteoroid is a piece of rock that’s broken off an asteroid or comet in outer space. But once it enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it’s called a meteor. That’s what you saw moving through the sky on ...