Decades of once‑secret US military reports, videos and witness accounts reveal strange glowing objects in the sky that officials have logged but still struggle to explain.

The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the ...

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS recently made its closest pass of the Sun, or perihelion, brightening up in observations as solar radiation caused it to shed gases at an immense rate. The ...

Telescopes around the world swiveled to focus on the explosion, soon picking up infrared radiation, which is produced after gamma rays in this kind of event. Berger was ready to view the visible light ...

Astronomers will investigate this fireball to help disentangle the heritage and history of the Solar System’s formation.

Join National Museum of Natural History educators and scientists to discover how the history of objects can be unpacked using inquiry-based thinking routines. We’ll explore techniques anthropologists ...