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

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.