NASA estimates around 44 tonnes of meteoritic material fall towards Earth each day. Almost all of it is vaporised in the atmosphere, leaving glowing streaks visible across the night sky.
The Perseid meteor shower is almost here, offering a dazzling display of "shooting stars" for sky watchers. But you might have to leave your city to make the most of this celestial event, here's what you need to know.
A woman in France was enjoying coffee with a friend when she was struck by a meteorite in an incredibly rare event.
Harvard professor Avi Loeb claims to have found remains of an interstellar object that crashed into the ocean in 2014
The search for the first interstellar meteor is being spearheaded by a Harvard physicist who has raised over a million dollars to probe the depths of the ocean for its fragments.
Experts wondered if it was a meteor or space debris since it displayed a speed unusual for the former.
Residents of North Island in Wellington, New Zealand, were stunned by the sight of a ‘rare’ meteor tearing across the sky on Thursday afternoon.
While there has not been any official word out yet about the apparent "meteor shower" , social media continues to stay abuzz as more people share photos and videos of the occurrence.
Though there are no official details which have been revealed by the company, it is expected that the Meteor will carry the new 650CC twin-cylinder engine.
An asteroid half the size of a football field passed closer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, the same day an unrelated and much smaller space rock blazed over central Russia, creating shock waves that shattered windows and injured 1,200 people.
A gigantic meteor collided with the earth about 2.5 million years ago, generating the mother of all tsunamis, hundreds of metres high, possibly plunging the planet into the Ice Ages...