Georgia bolide June 26, 2025

Celestial News & Events

Exploding Fireball Drops Meteorites Over Georgia

Space rocks pelt Georgia after Thursday's thunderous bolide.

Polarized light image of common type of meteorite

Astronomy & Observing News

We’ve Found the Source of Most Meteorites

Scientists have traced 70% of meteorite falls to three collisions that occurred in the asteroid belt within the past 40 million years.

End of journey for NJ meteorite

Astronomy & Observing News

Scientists Confirm: Meteorite Crashed Into New Jersey Home

A rock that crashed through the roof of a house in New Jersey proved to be the real thing — a chunk spalled from a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid.

Battered Vesta

Astronomy & Observing News

Observe Vesta — and Own a Piece of It, Too

Vesta's bright and easy to find in binoculars and maybe even with the naked eye in late summer skies. It's also just as easy to acquire a piece of it without a multi-billion dollar space mission.

Fireball Over Ontario

Explore the Night with Bob King

Fireball May Have Dropped Meteorites in Ontario

A lime-green meteor as bright as the full Moon streaked across Canadian skies on July 24th and may have delivered free samples from the asteroid belt.

Gancedo meteorite after being unearthed in Argentina

Astronomy in Space with David Dickinson

Huge Meteorite "Gancedo" Found in Argentina

A team in Argentina unearths a spectacular space rock, possibly the world's third largest single find.