Witnessing a meteor, or \"shooting star,\" is a dazzling event caused by tiny space rocks burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon, recognised as the parent body of the annual Geminid meteor shower, occupies a unique position in planetary science. Despite its rocky, low-albedo nature, Phaethon exhibits ...

SEAFORD, England -- A meteoroid was filmed moving through the sky over southern England early Monday morning. Footage by Twitter user @KrisztiUk shows the one-meter object, described by the European ...

Space dust and debris are crashing into the atmosphere all the time. When that debris heats up the air enough, it lights up ...