The western sky — and social media — lit up Tuesday morning when a meteor streaked over Western Pennsylvania skies and into the atmosphere over northeast Ohio. Jared Rackley, an employee with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh,

Meteor’s fiery passage through the atmosphere was captured by a space-based lightning mapper.

Meteor impacts are one of the few natural disasters that can arrive without warning, crossing the final kilometers of atmosphere in seconds. When scientists talk about the likeliest place on Earth for the next strike, they are not predicting a single ...

NASA has confirmed the loud, booming sound heard near Cleveland on Tuesday morning was caused by an asteroid - which was approximately six feet in diameter and weighed roughly seven tons. According to the National Weather Service,