When the Perseid meteor shower bursts across the sky later this month, will people be able to hear it? For centuries, people have reported hearing a sound made by meteors as they streaked across the ...

If you've been lucky enough to witness a meteor crash into Earth before, you may have noticed the booming, crackling sound that reverberates with it. Indeed, these bright meteors streak through the ...

It was the boom heard around the Sound Wednesday night and social media lit up after many people reported a loud noise that didn't sound like it came from earth. “I know right, we’re in the middle of ...

Astronomers call the phenomenon a “meteor storm,” which typically delivers at least 1,000 meteors per hour, 10 times as much as even the most prolific meteor showers. On rare occasions, a meteor storm ...

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new Johns Hopkins University–led research ...

How powerful was February's meteor that crashed into Russia? Strong enough that its explosive entry into our atmosphere was detected almost 6,000 miles away in Lilburn, Ga., by infrasound sensors -- a ...

The meteor that exploded over the steppes of southwestern Russia sent a low-frequency rumble bouncing through the Earth, giving scientists new clues about the biggest cosmic intruder in a century. The ...

NASA Insight mission's seismometer data of a meteor slamming into Mars has been converted into sound. The meteor broke into ...

A fireball meteor exploded and zipped through the Washington skies on Wednesday night, stargazers reported. The American Meteor Society received a dozen reports of a fireball seen over parts of ...