A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.

A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday night around the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Tallahassee office of the National ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

NASA is weighing in on the New Year’s Day boom heard across the Pittsburgh region. Researchers confirmed an exploding meteor was the “likely culprit” and estimated the size of the object at about ...

They blasted a meteorite with a plasma beam — and made a baffling discovery. The post Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth appeared first on Futurism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McCarthy Observatory Director John Gebauer works with the observatory's 17-inch telescope, which went online in 2024. (Courtesy of ...

In 2008, a 13-foot-wide asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere, zoomed across the sky and exploded 23 miles above the Nubian desert of northern Sudan. The explosion - far from human habitation - lit ...