A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.

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A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday night around the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Tallahassee office of the National ...

NASA is weighing in on the New Year’s Day boom heard across the Pittsburgh region. Researchers confirmed an exploding meteor was the “likely culprit” and estimated the size of the object at about ...

In 2008, a 13-foot-wide asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere, zoomed across the sky and exploded 23 miles above the Nubian desert of northern Sudan. The explosion - far from human habitation - lit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McCarthy Observatory Director John Gebauer works with the observatory's 17-inch telescope, which went online in 2024. (Courtesy of ...