On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove ...

NASA is weighing in on the New Year’s Day boom heard across the Pittsburgh region. Researchers confirmed an exploding meteor was the “likely culprit” and estimated the size of the object at about ...

A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday night around the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Tallahassee office of the National ...

For what many believe to be the first time ever, a meteor explosion was caught live on camera from space. Live-streaming company Sen caught the explosion live on their 24/7 livestream from space on ...

In 2008, a 13-foot-wide asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere, zoomed across the sky and exploded 23 miles above the Nubian desert of northern Sudan. The explosion - far from human habitation - lit ...