A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is expected to make a crash landing on Earth around May 9–10, 2025. Due to a ...

When 3 meteorite pieces struck Khalwat Nimgaon, it upended village life and set off a frantic hunt for a missing fragment.

A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.

Experts from the University of Alberta believe this is the first time audio of a meteorite fall is recorded. The American Meteor Society received at least 170 eyewitness reports of the falling ...

Following closely on the heels of the Lyrid meteor shower , the Aquardis (also sometimes spelled Aquardiis) meteors are some of the best astral views of the year, especially from the Southern ...

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Reports poured into the American Meteor Society from Washington state, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Alberta, Canada.

meteors are created by debris left behind by the famous Halley's Comet that then fall to Earth, creating "shooting stars" that leave long glowing trails behind. The meteor shower is one of the ...