A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia, creating booms heard by residents in the area, according to NASA. The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball… pic.twitter.com/c7yBQjAQan — CBS News (@CBSNews) June 27, 2025

( NewsNation) — Scientists who studied a meteorite that crash-landed into a Georgia man’s home estimated its age to be over 4.56 billion years old.

Scientists have disclosed that a meteorite which streaked across the sky and smashed into a house in the US in broad daylight on June 26 is actually older than Earth itself.