We received 5 reports about a fireball seen over England and Scotland on Tuesday, April 14th 2026 around 00:23 UT.

For this event, we received one video.

If you love a good mystery, look no further than the night sky in March 2026. There were no major meteor showers scheduled for March, yet suddenly fireballs started appearing everywhere.

"During the month of March, reports of very bright fireballs to the American Meteor Society (AMS) suddenly doubled," says Mike Hankey, who manages the AMS's fireball reporting system. "Many of them were visible in broad daylight and created loud sonic booms."
A daytime fireball over Western Europe on March 8th drew more than 3,200 witness reports. Nine days later, a 7-ton asteroid exploded over Ohio with the force of 250 tons of TNT. On March 21st, a fireball broke apart above Houston, sending a fragment through the roof of a house. And those were just the headliners.

Hankey has been running the fireball reporting system for nearly 15 years (indeed, he wrote much of the software himself), so he knew something unusual was happening. When the reports kept piling up, he dove into the data -- and what he found is genuinely puzzling.

"The total number of fireballs people saw was not dramatically unusual," Hankey explains. "But the fraction of big fireballs really surged."

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover up to half a million solar system objects every year. It's already starting to deliver on that promise.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory promised to discover up to half a million new solar system objects each year of operation. It isn't fully operational yet, and it's already delivering on that promise.

Last week, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center confirmed the discovery of more than 11,000 new asteroids captured by Rubin during a 1½-month observation period. That period wasn't even part of its planned Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), just a test run to check systems and optimize observations. Still, it was enough for Rubin's powerful 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope to make thousands of discoveries. While most of them are in the main asteroid belt, the list includes 380 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that orbit beyond Neptune, and 33 previously unknown near-Earth objects.

This latest submission to the Minor Planet Center (MPC) included approximately 1 million individual observations that tracked about 90,000 objects, of which 80,000 were already known. This tally includes several "lost" objects that were discovered at some point but with orbits too uncertain to keep track of them. By reverting these orbits back in time, researchers at the MPC could backtrack their location at the time of discovery, confirming that they were the same objects. All of these numbers are additional to the 1,500 or so other asteroids identified during Rubin's "First Look" observation campaign, from when the observatory went online last year.
"The significance of this is that Rubin is just starting," says Mario Jurić (University of Washington), leader of Rubin's solar system team. Currently, there are about 1.5 million asteroids known in our solar system. At that discovery rate, the observatory is expected to bump that number by fivefold in less than a decade, well into the 6 million range. "So, this is a 'it's here, it's working, it's coming' type of demonstration," Jurić adds.

We received 30 reports about a fireball seen over Cymru, England, Scotland and Wales on Monday, April 13th 2026 around 21:09 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.

A space rock entered Earth's atmosphere last night, creating a dramatic fireball over the North Sea. "We all screamed when it happened, I was so excited!" reports Ian Sproat who photographed the object from the Northumberland coastline of England:

"I was out taking pictures of the Milky Way rising over Lindisfarne (also known as 'Holy Island') when this huge fire ball passed through the frame creating an insane contrast of stars, landscape, and drama," he says.

We received 26 reports about a fireball seen over IA, IL, IN, MO and WI on Saturday, April 11th 2026 around 09:06 UT.

For this event, we received one video.

We received 28 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DC, MD, NY, Ontario, PA, TN, VA and WV on Thursday, April 9th 2026 around 08:39 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.

We received 8 reports about a fireball seen over Brandenburg, Hamburg, Niedersachsen and Thüringen on Wednesday, April 8th 2026 around 21:42 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 2 photos.

We received 38 reports about a fireball seen over CO, MT, NE, SD and WY on Thursday, April 9th 2026 around 02:26 UT.

For this event, we received 5 videos and one photo.

We received 7 reports about a fireball seen over CO on Wednesday, April 8th 2026 around 03:29 UT.

For this event, we received one video.