What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

On April 22, 2012, a 1/4 Hiroshima bomb detonation was heard in a wide area around Lake Tahoe. A small few meter sized asteroid crashed in our atmosphere, broke in fragments, pieces of which were seen ...

After a sonic boom from a meteor shook houses across the Northeast early Saturday afternoon, NASA said Sunday the meteorite landed in Cape Cod Bay. “This was a daytime bolide that produced a meteorite ...

A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion. People hundreds of miles (kilometers) away ...

A meteor that boomed across the skies of southern New England on May 30 may have left pieces of itself resting on the floor of Cape Cod Bay. According to NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map shows the projected debris path, or "strewn field," of meteorites following the March 21 fireball over the Houston area, ...

After a fireball was seen blazing across the sky last week, bits of meteorite have been discovered on the ground in the South, NASA said. The agency shared a photo of one such meteorite on Facebook.