A flying fireball was seen over a wide area of western Japan early Thursday, with astronomical experts saying it may have been caused by a meteor. Masayoshi Ueda, a 67-year-old amateur astronomer, successfully captured images of the object around 4:50 a.m. Thursday at his home ...
An expert in meteorites says a bright flashing light and loud boom over the skies in metro Phoenix looks like a single meteor burning up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour. Radar footage shows that meteorites — black rocks ...
Maine cop's dashcam for speeders clocks meteor streaking over New England
A police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera early Tuesday. The bright flash visible from several states was apparently left by a meteor burning up as it passed through Earth's atmosphere. Other people and webcams also ...
Meteor as bright as full moon streaks across Britain's skies
A bright "fireball" meteor has lit up British skies. Co-founder of the U.K. Meteor Observation Network Richard Kacerek said Thursday that the meteor shone almost as brightly as a full moon. He said it was viewed at about 3:15 a.m. over parts of Britain and was ...
Mystery blue flash across Scottish night sky laid to meteor, or space junk
Scientists say a meteor was the cause of a bright flash of light reported by people across Scotland and northern England. Police Scotland said the force began receiving calls about 6:55 p.m. Monday, with people reporting a loud bang, a sudden blue, green or white ...
U.S. Southwest night sky fireball part of Russian space booster, not Santa's sleigh
The body of a Russian rocket that burned up Tuesday night as it entered the Earth's atmosphere set off a wave of excitement on social media and fueled speculation over what caused the flash of light to shoot across western skies. U.S. and Russian officials ...
Observatories and other bodies received a number of reports of a fireball-like object in the skies over western Japan on Monday night, with experts saying it was likely a bolide — a very bright shooting star. Hoshi no Bunkakan in Fukuoka Prefecture, one of the ...
Mystery fireball seen over Rockies was Russian spy satellite, not meteor, experts say
People from New Mexico to Montana saw the bright object break apart as it moved slowly northward across the night sky. Witnesses described it as three "rocks" with glowing red and orange streaks. But the fireball that blazed over the Rockies earlier this month wasn't ...
Japan, Britain to join forces to research missile technology
Japan and Britain plan to collaborate on researching technology for air-to-air missiles that could one day be loaded on the F-35 stealth fighter jets to be acquired and operated by the Air Self-Defense Force, Japanese government sources said Wednesday. The envisioned collaboration between the two ...
On an extraordinary day for the planet, a meteor explodes over Russia with the largest impact in more than a century while a larger space rock barely misses Earth.
