The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through space before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into a home. “This one went through a house in McDonough, an the whole mass, we estimate, was probably like the size of a large cherry tomato,” Harris said.

Arizona meteor hunter Robert Ward collected fragments of a meteorite in Georgia, including a 73.2-gram piece, adding to his private museum collection.

A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered by a local meteorite hunter. The 3-foot meteor splintered in the air in broad daylight, littering Newton County — about 40 miles southeast of Atlanta — with fragments scattered around the area.

It blasted into Earth’s atmosphere 27 miles above Georgia and was found by a meteorite hunter in Henry County.

Remnants of a cosmic 'fireball' object witnessed soaring across Georgia may have broken off and plummeted through the roof of a home south of Atlanta.

The ‘scary’ fireball that witnesses saw shooting across the sky in several U.S. states on June 26 has been identified. NASA confirmed to PEOPLE that the moving object was a meteor caused by a small space rock burning up after entering Earth’s atmosphere.

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing of the June 26 meteor that blasted across the Atlanta area during the middle of the day.

The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

A brilliant fireball meteor streaked across southeastern US skies on Thursday, June 26, 2025, creating a spectacular daylight display that was captured on multiple cameras and detected by ...