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A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new study has found. The asteroid, spotted by astronomers just hours before its ...

The space object, captured on 2 September, was seen "streaking and then exploding" over the Nile river in a slowed-down timelapse A MYSTERIOUS bright flash was captured above Earth by an astronaut ...

A large meteor exploded over Earth, Nasa has revealed. It said the massive fireball was the second largest blast of its kind for 30 years, and yet it went mostly undetected. The meteor exploded with ...

THIS is the astonishing moment a huge meteor exploded in a blazing white fireball as it flew at an incredible 3,500mph. Footage showed the space rock turning Russia’s night sky into day as it burned ...

A newly discovered asteroid that will fly safely past Earth today (Feb. 9) may be larger than a celestial object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, five years ago. The newly found interloper, ...

This is the moment a meteor exploded spectacularly in the night sky and was captured on a doorbell security camera. Electrician Carl Seed, 49, expected to spot a curious cat when his security camera ...

In what was an historic first, an asteroid that had only just been discovered exploded over the English Channel in a huge meteor fireball 'airburst' at around 3am this morning (Monday, February 13).

The Thule air base houses the US Department of Defence’s early missile warning sensors, designed to detect incoming missiles. The system has poised nuclear missiles, set up and ready to launch in the ...

A small asteroid detected only hours before entering the Earth’s atmosphere burned up in the skies above Berlin into a harmless fireball on Sunday. The entry of the space rock, dubbed 2024 BXI, into ...

Residents captured the stunning moment of its fiery descent on video THIS is the astonishing moment a huge meteor exploded in a blazing white fireball as it flew at an incredible 3,500mph. Footage ...

A MYSTERIOUS bright flash was captured above Earth by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The footage shows a split-second white and green explosion above the Mediterranean sea, ...