Fireballs Spaceships And Iguanas 7 Strange Things That Fell From The Sky

Fireballs were much in the news over the past month due to a big one that was seen in the Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana areas around local midnight on March 26 - 27, 2003. The fireball streaked …

This photograph was taken by S. Eichmiller in Altoona, Pennsylvania just after the main meteoroid body broke up into fragments. The events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite on …

The brightest of the meteors are called fireballs. Sonic booms often follow the appearance of a fireball just as thunder often follows lightning. At certain times of the year, more meteors than …

Welcome to the archive of Questions & Answers previously featured in the StarChild "Question of the Month" section.

The Sun does not "burn", like we think of logs in a fire or paper burning. The Sun glows because it is a very big ball of gas, and a process called nuclear fusion is taking place in its core. Nuclear …

VIDEO DESCRIPTION: Video footage of fireball streaking across the sky, breaking up into seperate smaller fireballs. Animation of path of fireball over a map of the Eastern United States. Fireball …