The Betsa family joined dozens at River Styx Park hunting for meteorites after NASA identified the area as the likely landing zone for fragments from Tuesday's fireball over Northeast Ohio.

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that shone in the bright blue daytime sky. The rare sight, which exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons of TNT,

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of this event exactly," Steven Sladek said of the meteorite that shook Northeast Ohio on Tuesday.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches of sandy or pebbly material scientists had expected based on observations with Earth-based instruments.

TransAstra is performing a study, funded by investors and customers, to explore the technical feasibility of moving a 100-metric-ton asteroid to a stable near-Earth orbit. “We want to bring an asteroid to the Earth-moon system and turn it into a robotic research outpost for materials processing and manufacturing in space,

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.

If an object were to break into the Earth's atmosphere, it's likely to be one of two things: space junk or a rare meteorite.