Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...

Skygazers have a lot to look forward to over the next month. A couple of dueling meteor showers will grace the skies later in ...

The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball sighting from observers in Georgia and South Carolina.

The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.

Fireball sightings were reported in multiple states across the southeastern United States during the day on Thursday, which NASA determined was produced by an asteroidal fragment weighing over a ...

A brilliant fireball meteor streaked across southeastern US skies on Thursday, June 26, 2025, creating a spectacular daylight display that was captured on multiple cameras and detected by ...

A rarely seen daytime fireball that may have been dropped by a meteor was spotted across the Southeast on Thursday — creating a sonic boom that blared through the region.

Meteors and other space debris frequently enter Earth's atmosphere, but it is rare for an object to be so bright it can easily be seen in daylight. Bright fireballs are caused by friction as an ...

Broad daylight sighting is rare Meteors and other space debris frequently enter Earth’s atmosphere, but it is rare for an object to be so bright it can easily be seen in broad daylight.

"Daylight fireballs are rare in that it takes a large object (larger than a beachball compared to your normal pea-sized meteor) to be bright enough to be seen during the day," said Robert Lunsford ...

A rarely seen daytime fireball that may have been dropped by a meteor was spotted across the Southeast on Thursday — creating a sonic boom that blared through the region.