Chinese space firm Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it accidentally launched a rocket it was testing. The Tianlong-3 is designed as a rival to SpaceX’s Falcon 9, with a similar takeoff mass and reflight. But a stationary engine test on Sunday saw the rocket lift off and crash into a mountain. A Chinese space firm said […]
The internet is alight with footage of a meteor that sped through the night skies over Portugal and Spain, lighting up the skies as a blue-green fireball. The meteor was confirmed by European Space Agency (ESA), who caught the fireball with its cameras in Cáceres, Spain, at 6:46 p.m. EDT (22:46 UTC) on Saturday (May […]
Last week featured both a total solar eclipse and a mid-week fireball, and over the weekend, another fireball added to the space phenomena seen in the sky. The American Meteor Society received 139 reports about a fireball seen on Saturday, April 13, at around 9:08 p.m. Sightings of the fireball were reported between 8:05 p.m. […]
A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern California early Tuesday morning (April 2), putting on quite a show for observers in the Golden State. The fall created a blazing fireball witnessed by people from the Sacramento area all the way down to San Diego, according to the American Meteor Society […]
The Su-35 plummets towards the sea A Russian fighter jet crashed into the sea off the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Thursday, the regional governor has said. Footage published on the social media platform Telegram shows the Su-35 consumed by flames as it spirals through the air towards the Black Sea. The jet plummets for […]
A mom will go to prison after a crash that killed her 5-year-old daughter, federal officials said. Leticia Ashley, 38, a member of the Navajo Nation, is accused of drinking a half-pint of Fireball liquor in July 2022 before getting behind the wheel with her four children inside, according to a March 6 news release […]
WASHINGTON — An elected member of a Virginia school board —who allegedly bragged about drinking Fireball and Coors Light in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and said he was in touch with a member of the far-right Oath Keepers that day — was arrested by federal authorities on Tuesday. Miles Adkins, a […]
An incendiary spectacle at a Boston gas station was captured on video earlier this week, when a white SUV slammed into a standing pump and ignited a huge fireball. Incredibly, there were no injuries. The station’s surveillance cameras show a scene out of a cartoon: The young woman driving a white Acura MDX pulls into […]
A fireball flashed across the night sky above Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday, February 2, grabbing the attention of dozens of stargazers. The American Meteor Society received more than 30 reports of a fireball over Florida and Georgia. Some observers reported the color of the meteor to be blue or green, and remarked on its appearance, […]
BIRMINGHAM, England – An unusually bright meteor known as a fireball was spotted over Europe on Saturday, with more than a hundred reports of the colorful shooting star over parts of the United Kingdom and France. A video recorded at 2:07 a.m. in Birmingham, England, showed a flash of blue light as a bright meteor […]
Among multiple explosions, a huge fireball rose high above the pier in the Crimean coastal city of Feodosia early Tuesday Morning local time. According to Mykola Oleshchuk, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, a strike by his forces caused the destruction of the Ropucha class landing ship Novocherkassk. While we cannot confirm the general’s […]