A meteor exploded in the sky above New South Wales. An astronomer explains where it might have come from

Astronomers will investigate this fireball to help disentangle the heritage and history of the Solar System’s formation.

Gigantic flash spotted across Sydney and Canberra as meteor explodes off Australian east coast

A large white flash lit up the ocean off Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Thursday night, with stunned locals reporting what ...
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An asteroid exploded over Russia - and we never saw it coming

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: scientists completely missed it, even as they were ...

Newly discovered huge asteroid the size of football pitch flies close to Earth

Asteroid 2026 JH2 sailed came within 50,000 miles of Earth - about a quarter of the distance to the Moon - and was only ...

‘Imagine it’s dog poo’: The three critical rules if you find Sydney meteorite

In an era when many stargazers are wasting their shooting-star wishes on falling space junk, what blazed across eastern ...

Aussie driver accidentally captures incredible scene on dashcam: 'Insanely amazing'

Hundreds, if not thousands, of Aussies reported seeing similar across parts of Sydney, Canberra and throughout the Central ...
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Debrief: ‘City Killer’ Asteroid Numbers Set To Explode

NASA aims to launch its NEO Surveyor asteroid-hunting space telescope in 2027. Credit: NASA COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before ...