A meteor lit up skies over parts of North Carolina and Tennessee on Thursday night, zooming by at 47,000 mph, according to NASA. Eyewitnesses have shared numerous photographs on social media of the fireball, which initially sprang into view about 50 miles above the North Carolina town of Robbinsville. NASA said the meteor was also captured…
Crew 12 dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth on Thursday, one day after undocking from the International Space Station, in a meteor-like fireball of concentrated reentry heat, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles to close out a 237-day mission. Commander Jessica Meir, pilot Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency…
The Perseid meteor shower is set to provide a late-summer show in the skies over the United States. The meteor shower, which NASA calls the best of the year, is set to peak on Aug. 12 and 13. “With swift and bright meteors, Perseids frequently leave long ‘wakes’ of light and color behind them as…
