Next weekend will be a great time to get away from city lights to enjoy the night sky and the annual Geminid meteor shower. Meteors are also known as falling, or shooting, stars because they appear to ...
Shortly after first light on Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky before exploding with an estimated blast yield of up to 500 kilotons of TNT — far more powerful than the ...