Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower returns each year in January - but the position of the moon this year should increase visibility in the UK, the Royal Astronomical Society says.

Its diameter is similar to the asteroid that caused the Tunguska incident in Siberia in 1908, where a meteorite explosion ...

People will be able to see the Quadrantid meteor shower ... entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed and heating up due to friction with the air. They are usually destroyed in under a second ...

People will be able to see the Quadrantid meteor shower ... entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed and heating up due to friction with the air. They are usually destroyed in under a second ...

All “shooting stars” are caused by dust and dirt striking Earth’s atmosphere, though usually the source is a passing comet. The Quadrantid meteor shower is caused by dust and debris left in ...

Meteors are the result of small particles entering the Earth’s ... with the air and are destroyed, the superheated air around them glows briefly - making it visible from the ground as a ‘shooting star ...

The first meteor ... the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, typically around 40km per second for the Quadrantids. The pieces of debris heat up due to friction with the air and are usually destroyed ...

A celestial display may light up the UK skies tonight in the first meteor ... the Earth’s atmosphere at around 40km per second. The debris heats up due to friction with the air and are destroyed ...