Falling stars?

"Falling stars" are not stars at all, but meteors. Meteors are small pieces of space dust which enter our upper atmosphere and burn up, leaving a luminous trail.

They are NOT "meteorites" as several people answered! Meteorites are what meteors are called if they fail to burn up in the atmosphere and actually strike the surface of the Earth. For every ten thousand meteors, perhaps only one will be large enough to reach the surface of the Earth and become a meteorite.

The falling stars or shooting stars are called meteorites, which are cosmic debris as remnants of a planetary collapse in the Solar system, revolving near to Earth and up to Saturn and they enter Earth due to gravitational pull of Earth and the high speed of its fall makes it to have a great friction generating high temperature and associated heat and light, to look lie falling stars!

The Asteroids are the fragments of a planet between Mars and Venus are numbered about two millions are revolving around the Sun, reaches Earth's gravitational field and get trapped, enters Earth as falling stars. These are not stars and our Sun is the only star near to us! Generally a star is more than the size of Earth by several hundred to several millions times in volume and weight!

They don't fall. What you are talking about is meteorites. They are small bits of rock which fly into our atmosphere at high speeds and burn up as they enter.

Stars that we can see are all much larger than the earth. These are like suns. They don't "fall" and only noticeably change position relative to other stars over very long periods of time.

Funnily enough, they are not actually stars.

Falling star is the redneck name for meteors.

Those bright moving spots are tiny bits of sand or gravel that are burning up in the upper atmosphere from the heat generated by air friction due to their extremely high velocities.

you are mistaking 'falling stars/shooting star" with an actual star. This is where English gets a jumbled up in attaching one definition to another object that doesn't fit the definition.

Falling star is a meteor/asteroid that enters the earth atmosphere and burns up. if it lands its a meteorite.

they are not in any way, shape, or form, a star.

Stars don't fall.

I think you are reffering to meteorites. They are rocks that are pulled into the Earth from outer space due to gravity. Due to friction against the atmosphere, they start burning and to us they look like falling stars.

Falling stars are not really stars. They are large chunks of space debris. They burn up upon contact with the atmosphere due to friction. We call them falling (or shooting) stars but they are just chunks of rock.

They're not stars, merely debris burning up as it enters the atmosphere.