When Cincinnati resident Steve Hart looked back at footage from his recently installed surveillance camera, he spotted something he wished he'd seen in person. A large meteor flashed across the sky Thursday night, and residents from at least nine states, including Ohio, , Huffington Post reported. The fireball flashed across the sky at 10:47 p.m. EST, according to the footage. Steve Hart captured this image of the meteor on his security camera. (Screenshot via WCPO-TV video) As of Monday morning,...

Comet Catalina has finally arrived and has become even cooler. According to EarthSky, . Originally discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 23, 2013, (Catalina) was since it appeared inactive. Since then, it has become highly active, providing the opportunity for astronomers around the world to observe it. The image above shows the Catalina Comet on July 7, 2014. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) - a dust tail and a plasma tail of ionized gas. They point away from the sun and typically...

For more than 200 days, Scott Kelly has been documenting his life on the International Space Station and sharing some breathtaking images on his Twitter account. One of his most recent images has caused a buzz throughout the Internet, but not for the reason you would expect. (Scott Kelly/NASA) Many have shared the image across social media and speculated that an unexplained structure observed in the top right corner of the photo is actually some sort of alien spaceship. Kelly's...

"This moon is doomed." That's the message NASA , one of Mars' two small moons. The administration said Phobos has been developing long, shallow grooves on its surface that are a sign of wear and tear from its gravitational interaction with Mars. The grooves on Phobos could be created by tidal forces, new modeling data suggests. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) “We think that Phobos has already started to fail, and the first sign of this failure is the production of these...

Glimpse of 'Bagnold Dunes' Edging Mount Sharp. (NASA / Mars Curiosity) NASA's Curiosity is going where no rover has ever gone before: Martian sand dunes. ABOVE: Curiosity's Mission in Photos Therover will be closing in on an area called the "Bagnold Dunes," which the Mars researchers affectionately named afterRalph Alger Bagnold, the father of dune exploration. The robotic vehicle is expected to arrive shortly after Thanksgiving, likely after the first week of December, according to scientists with knowledge of the...

Blue Origin's fully reusable rocket approaches landing in West Texas. (Credit: blueorigin.com) Blue Origins, the private spaceflight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launched — and safely landed — a rocket, the company announced in a . A highly produced video of the expedition, also released Monday, shows the BE-3 rocket and crew capsule lifting off from a West Texas plain. The spacecraft, named New Shepard, shoots some 100.4 km (62 miles) into the air, when the manned capsule...

The northern lights may not be exclusively northern any longer, according to a new study. Researchers at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have discovered that, as the magnetic field of the planet continues to weaken, it will begin to affect how well solar winds bounce off of it. According to Tech Times, the scientists believe that and appear more frequently in parts of Canada and the U.S. “The Earth’s magnetic field more or less keeps the solar wind at bay, and...

Pictured is the piece of debris that washed up southwest of Great Britain. (Maritime and Coastguard Agency) A piece of debris from a SpaceX spaceship has washed ashore in the Isles of Scilly, southwest of Great Britain, and some amateur digital investigators believe they have solved the mystery. U.K. Coast Guard officials confirmed they found a piece of rocket debris that was , according to the CBC. When they got a closer look at the barnacle-covered object, they concluded it...

Scientists say they've located the crash site of the Apollo 16 booster on the Moon, 43 years after America's penultimate trip to the lunar surface. The discovery , a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, according to ABC News. He located the booster by studying high-resolution images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the report added. This image shows the crash site, as well as the crater left behind when the Apollo 16 booster collided with the...

An artist's rendering of how one exoplanet might look. (NASA/JPL-CALTECH) A team of researchers have found that at least half of the known exoplanets– planets outside our solar system– may not actually be planets at all. Scientists told the Extreme Solar Systems III conference that are false positives, Science Magazine reported. These celestial bodies, previously believed to be planets, may actually be groupings of failed stars, known as brown dwarfs, orbiting one another, the scientists also said. The discovery was...

The photo above is one of the highest-resolution images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. It shows new details of the planet's rugged, icy cratered plains. New high-resolution images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provide the clearest look at Pluto that we might have for decades. Space.com reports that the spectacular photos were during its historic Pluto flyby on July 14. They provide a close up look at the dwarf planet's sweeping plains and massive water-ice mountains. Previously unnoticed...

There's reason to brave the elements this December: The month's meteor shower, the Geminids, is the best and brightest of the year, Dr. Bill Cooke, an expert in NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, told weather.com. Meteors will start to streak across the sky the night of Dec. 4, continuing through the 17th. The show will peak in the early morning hours of Dec. 14 — between midnight and 3 a.m. is the sweet spot, Cooke said. “If you can stand the...