On March 17, a space rock the size of a basketball slammed into the lunar surface at a speed of 56,000 miles per hour, creating a new crater around 20 meters wide. Continue reading →

Before it collided with Earth, the Chelyabinsk space rock was a 10,000 ton meteoroid -- now astronomers think they know where it came from. ->

The dramatic footage of a meteor exploding over Russia was brought to us via the necessity of driving with a dashboard camera on lawless Russian roads. ->

The Russian meteor and flyby of 2012 DA14 were not related -- to prove it, simulation company AGI has recreated both historic events. ->

On June 28, 1911, an explosion shook the Nakhla region of Alexandria in Egypt at 9 a.m. According to an eyewitness account, a dog perished in the resulting meteorite fall.

Astronaut Ron Garan captured a dazzling -- and unique -- view of a meteor flashing through the Earth's atmosphere.

Building on the huge success of #Meteorwatch, the UK's Newbury Astronomical Society is currently preparing for the second instalment of #Moonwatch! You might be wondering, what's this #Moonwatch? What's it got to do with Twitter? What's this "#" business? Well, #Meteorwatch occurred during the Pers...

Sunday morning, parts of Nevada and California were shaken by the sonic boom of a meteor slamming into the atmosphere.