Mariah K., who saw the phenomenon from Livingston, Texas, said she initially thought it was a "weird plane" until she took a closer look. "Then I stared longer and realized it was too rounded for a ...
The imaging satellite was decommissioned two years ago and abandoned to burn up upon reentry through Earth's atmosphere.
The Ursid meteor shower peaked this year on the night of December 21-22, the same time as the satellite reentry.
The space junk in the spotlight is the fiery demise of a defunct Chinese commercial Earth-imaging satellite called Superview ...
Astronomer and astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told BNO News that the fireball was debris from a Chinese satellite that had ...
A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the United States this weekend, but that was no meteor ...
Residents across the southern US were confused to see fireball-like objects streaking across the sky on Saturday, December 21 ...
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A number of viewers took to social media about a streak of light moving through the sky last night. WEAR ...
The GaoJing 1-02 imaging satellite burned up over the U.S. in a mesmerizing 'fireball' that some skywatchers mistook for a ...
A fireball in the sky seen late Saturday night caused a flurry of social media posts and calls to local authorities from New ...
The satellite was seen breaking up over several states, including Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, late Saturday,1.
The Chinese decommissioned satellite entered the atmosphere above New Orleans around 10 p.m. and burned over Mississippi, ...