Tagged: meteors

Today in science: February 9, 1913. An odd and still-unexplained parade of meteors on this date dazzled viewers in Canada, the northeastern United States, and ships in the Atlantic all the way down to Brazil. The event is usually known by the name the Great...

Around the world, a network of low-light video security cameras are pointed at dark skies, capturing faint meteors and using triangulation to determine their trajectories and orbits. Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute leads this project, which is called CAMS. He said in May 2021...

A Scot has shared images of of mysterious UFOs in the north-east skies. Dramatic pictures show four streaks of white vapour appearing to be shooting downwards in the clear blue sky. The resident went as far as to claim ‘meteors’ were falling to earth just...

Meteoroids slamming against the atmospheres of alien worlds could add organic gases that make them look inhabited by life even if they are not, researchers say. In recent years, astronomers have detected hundreds of extrasolar planets. Many of these exoplanets lie within habitable zones, the...

Ahhh, King Tutankhamun, arguably the most well-known to us of ancient Egypt’s rulers, the inspiration for many a child’s archaeological daydreams and owner of a dagger made from space metal. Wait, what? King Tut, who reigned in the 14th century B.C.E., was buried according to...