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Hundreds of people in the northern Shenandoah Valley reported hearing a loud explosion or a “sonic boom” Friday morning. The Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office says their dispatch center received dozens of 911 calls about 10:20 a.m. Authorities couldn’t find any sign of an explosion or incident. The Page County and Rockingham County 911 centers received similar calls. The United States…

Hundreds of people in the Shenandoah Valley reported hearing a loud boom this morning. This is what is sounded like.

Norwegian experts say an unusually large meteor was visible over large parts of southern Scandinavia and illuminated southeast Norway with a powerful flash of light for a few seconds as many observers were reported to also hear a roaring sound afterwards.

A large meteor briefly lit up southern Norway on Sunday.

It’s a good time to look up. One of the year’s most spectacular skywatching shows, the annual Perseid meteor shower, is back to light up the night sky. The Perseid meteor shower peaks in mid-August, when up to 100 meteors can be seen per hour, but the celestial event will be active beginning Wednesday, which means shooting stars may be visible...

Residents across South Florida saw quite the bright light over the sky late Monday night from a possible meteor.

According to NASA, the meteor could be seen from North Carolina to New Hampshire early Sunday morning.

A meteor streaked across the sky in the United Kingdom on Sunday night.

There were 90 reports of a bright white fireball with shades of yellow being seen from Ontario to Virginia.

Throughout the afternoon, there were 90 reports of a bright white fireball with shades of yellow being seen from Ontario to Virginia, with most reports of the loud boom coming from the Syracuse area.

A brightly burning meteor could be seen in Japan’s sky on Sunday night.

It’s one of the highlights of summer — the Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak this week. Billed as the most active meteor shower of the year, it’s slated to peak the nights of Aug. 11 and Aug. 12 in 2020. The National Weather Service says the moon will make it hard to see some of the meteors, but the...

The two-day Perseid meteor shower offers one of the most spectacular shooting star displays.

There were nearly 500 reported sightings of a fireball over the Southeastern region of the U.S. early Thursday morning, according to the American Meteor Society. Reports of the possible meteor came from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama.

A mysterious object seen in the California sky late Wednesday sent a flurry of people searching for answers. NASA confirmed Thursday that it was a meteor after the bright light in the sky got everyone speculating what it could have been. The space agency said the meteor went down in the ocean.

Singer Lana Del Rey has canceled her planned performance at an Israeli music festival after pressure from Palestinian boycott activists. In a Twitter message late Friday, Del Rey says she is delaying “until a time when I can schedule visits for both my Israeli and Palestinian fans.” It wasn’t clear whether it was a direct response to the Boycott, Divestment,...

Twitter ignited Tuesday night after users reported hearing a “boom” in southeastern Michigan and sharing videos of what appeared to be a meteor flaring in the night sky.