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 ...

A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night. The National Weather Service Office in Tallahassee said the meteor exploded at ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 7—The new year began with a bang as an object streaked across the heavens above Haywood — illuminating the sky with a ...

This video still image shows injuries created by the meteor that exploded over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on Feb. 15, 2013. An object entered the atmosphere over the Urals early in the morning ...

The light wasn't the first thing people noticed. It was the noise. Earlier this year, people in parts of Indiana and ...