Comet . Comets are celestial bodies of ice, dust, and rock—believed to be residual material from the formation of the Solar System—that orbit the Sun in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.

When a comet gets close to the Sun, it heats up and releases tiny particles—meteoroids. These follow the comet’s general path, forming narrow streams. But not every meteoroid moves the same way.

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

More than 200 sightings were sent to the American Meteor Society, and a Georgia resident reported a rock falling through a ...

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

In the middle of the day, a spectacular fireball flashed over the southeastern United States and disintegrated with a loud ...

Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...

The National Weather Service said fireballs were spotted across the Southeast, including Charleston, South Carolina, a day ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball sighting from observers in Georgia and South ...

Remnants of a cosmic 'fireball' object witnessed soaring across Georgia may have broken off and plummeted through the roof of ...

June 30 marks a night when Earth drifts through the dusty trail of Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke, triggering one of the summer’s ...