The bright object was likely a Starlink satellite burning up in Earth's atmosphere as it fell back toward our planet.

Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images A meteor shower known for its fiery balls of flames will be visible in the sky ...

WTOP received reports from people in the wider D.C. area describing seeing a meteor with a bright green tail Monday night, as ...

Skygazers across the Southwest U.S. spotted a possible fireball breaking up in the night sky, but it turns out this shooting ...

But Earth was young and a very different place when the S2 meteorite, estimated to have 50 to 200 times more mass than the dinosaur extinction-triggering Chicxulub asteroid, collided with the ...

Stargazers who missed the peak of the first branch of the Taurid meteor shower have another opportunity to witness a celestial display best known for the fireballs it can send hurtling through the ...

But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet. One up to 200 times bigger landed 3.26 billion years ago, triggering worldwide destruction at an even greater scale. But ...

The meteorite, S2, was discovered in 2014. It hit the planet about 3.26 billion years ago and is estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the space rock that later killed the dinosaurs.

A meteor shower known for its fiery balls of flames will be visible in the sky this week. According to the American Meteor Society, the seasonal Southern Taurids meteor shower will be visible ...