Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth's atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a ...

If you have seen a bright light streak across the sky, you have likely seen a meteor. Meteors are rocks from space that hit Earth's atmosphere and are commonly referred to as falling stars or shooting ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — On Thursday, multiple reports surfaced of a streak of light in the sky over the southeastern U.S. A dash camera inside a vehicle in Knoxville caught what may have been a ...

A NASA expert confirmed to PEOPLE that the object was a meteor, which is a streak of light caused by a small space rock burning up after entering Earth’s atmosphere “It disintegrated 27 miles above ...

The booming space industry has filled the skies with rockets and satellites, but this rapid expansion comes with a hidden danger: slowing the recovery of the ozone layer. Rocket launches and burning ...

Visitors from Space Reach the Earth', 1935 . From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 1, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, ]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print ...

NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT and causing loud booms and tremors. The meteor triggered lightning sensors on ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery blizzards and the anomalous events — from hurricanes and polar vortices to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Perseid meteor shower will start in the evening on July 17, bringing thousands of shooting stars to skies across the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s everything you need to ...

A bright flash of light followed by a loud boom startled residents across parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee on Thursday afternoon as reports of a "fireball" streamed in from multiple ...