It’s estimated that the Chelyabinsk meteoroid was around 20 meters across when it impacted our atmosphere, whereas 2023 NT1 appears to be three times as wide, making it roughly the size of a ...

Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage to the area. Only once every few million years, an object large enough to threaten Earth ...

The swarm in question is the Taurid Meteoroid Complex ... most just microns — millionths of a meter — in size, burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. However, lurking among all the dust are ...

“This is the brightest comet since Comet McNaught in 2006,” Bill Cooke, the lead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office at ...

Using an updated model of inelastic collisions, we are currently examining the sensitivity of plasma generation to factors such as meteoroid size and velocity and comparing model results with radar ...

The Taurid meteor shower originates from the Comet Encke, which is one of the biggest comets in the solar system, Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, told ABC News.

The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers will peak in early to mid-November this year, possibly bringing fireballs.

The imprecision in the measurements of claimed interstellar fireballs means it is highly likely they originate in the solar ...

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a ...

Every 80 years, a violent explosion makes the T Coronae Borealis star system visible with the naked eye for about one week.

The Orionids are made of grain-size bits of ice and rocky dust from ... Bill Cooke, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, suggested finding an area far from city or streetlights ...