Meteor

The annual event usually begins around October 2, picking up steam towards the middle of the month and petering out as we head into November.

The Perseids are the result of debris being released from the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle as it speeds past the Earth in its orbit around the sun.

A Harvard professor says a meteor that burned up in the atmosphere was traveling too fast to have come from our solar system.

The meteor was what NASA calls an "Earth grazer," and it was not common.

Hundreds of people in Florida and Cuba witnessed the phenomenon.

MIDAS astronomer Jose Maria Madiedo confirmed the impact after reviewing telescope observations.

Over 450 people across the East Coast reported seeing the meteor on Wednesday morning.

Were the flashes a fireball, a rocket launch, or even the work of aliens?

The celestial event is caused by a stream of cosmic debris falling toward Earth at around 80,000 miles per hour.

The meteor shower lasts for a few weeks but Sunday night into Monday morning was peak viewing.

The tiny space rocks passed a third of the distance to the moon.

More than 600 reports were filed with the American Meteor Society about the fireball over the weekend.

Scientists are scrabbling to find the valuable rocks before they are degraded by sea water.

I suspect that the comet heading to Tilted Towers will signal the end of a "Fortnite" era.

The rocks were hiding in fields of snow and ice.

The pastor promised that the meteor was a harbinger of mental, physical and economic rejuvenation that would begin in Michigan and spread across the world.

You'll need a magnet, a metal detector and...the lid of a toilet tank.

Events like these occur dozens of times each year. Why was this one special?

The meteor crash-landed last night just after 8 p.m. local time.

The meteor was part of the annual Quadrantid meteor shower.

The Wolf Moon might get in the way.

It was green and came from the sky, but there were no aliens.

Witnesses from Massachusetts to Maine reported seeing a colorful glow in the sky.

The moon may get in the way of a normally brilliant shower.

Conditions are nearly perfect to view the celestial phenomenon.

The secret is in the structure of asteroids, which look surprisingly like Swiss cheese.

Find a dark, open space next Wednesday night.

The satellite's rocket may have faltered, sources speculated.

What if humans could take over meteor showers and make them perfect Instagram fodder?

The astronaut made a wish and you should too.