Meteors, Shooting Stars and Fireballs

NASA's Terra satellite captured striking views of the meteor that exploded over the Bering Sea on Dec. 18, 2018.

Astronomers just got the goods on the meteor that flared up over Cuba earlier this month.

Hundreds or millions of years after a meteorite smashes into Earth, researchers are left analyzing the impact site to figure out what happened.

For sale: Meteor that nearly destroyed Siberia. Lightly used.

The moon is shrouded by darkness and then re-emerges with dynamic color and activity in a new time-lapse video featuring this past weekend's total lunar eclipse.

There's a new satellite in space, and it was put there to drop "meteors" over the city of Hiroshima.

Japan launched seven spacecraft to Earth orbit today (Jan. 17), including a little satellite designed to create dazzling artificial meteor showers.

Asteroid impacts have a bad reputation here on Earth — it's the dinosaurs' signature public relations victory — but it's the moon that really bears the scars of living in our messy neighborhood.

A Japanese Epsilon rocket will launch a suite of seven experimental satellites this evening (Jan. 17), including one little cubesat that will test out creating artificial meteors.

The Draconid meteor shower peaks Oct. 8 with an outburst, but the full moon will wash it out.

The 2019 Ursid meteor shower will peak the night of Dec. 21-22, with expected rates of about 10 meteors per hour.

While the Taurid meteor shower doesn't have a lot of shooting stars to offer, the few that will streak across the sky may be bright and spectacular.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks the night of Dec. 13-14. This guide tells you the best times and places to see these shooting stars (no equipment necessary).

In mid-November, the fickle Leonid meteor shower hits Earth once again. The annual shower will peak Nov. 17.

The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of Oct. 22-23, but a bright moon will disrupt viewing until shortly before dawn.