After a seven-ton fireball exploded above the Cleveland area, a group of meteorite hunters descended too, in the name of science — and possibly cash.Mark Dayton, an avid meteorite chaser, searches for a fragment late on Thursday.

Hannah Berryman’s engrossing documentary on Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle pilot and commander, focuses on managing pride and fear.

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

NASA confirmed that the loud boom heard and felt by people in northern Ohio was indeed caused by a meteor.

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid-fueled rocket on his aunt’s farm.Dr. Goddard at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in the 1920s.