A "meteoroid cluster" has been observed in Tokushima Prefecture and other parts of western Japan. Multiple meteors appeared ...

Scientists in Australia have unearthed 3.48 billion-year-old rock fragments that may be the earliest evidence of a meteorite crashing into Earth. The fragments, known as spherules, may have formed ...

The Moon has no atmosphere, no weather, and no wind. Yet it faces an invisible bombardment more relentless than any ...

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting ...

Scientists confirmed that a meteoroid previously hit Earth's atmosphere The meteoroid turned into a huge fireball that traveled over 800 miles The space rock was hurled away from Earth and returned to ...

For the first time, a team of NASA and international scientists has gathered a detailed understanding of the effects a small asteroid impact can have on Earth. The unprecedented data obtained as the ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

For the first time, NASA has captured the weird sound of a meteoroid sailing through another planet’s atmosphere and crashing to the ground. The recording, posted Sept. 19 on YouTube, combines ...

Meteoroid impacts represent one of the most dynamic interactions between extraterrestrial bodies and the Earth’s atmosphere. When meteoroids enter the atmosphere, they experience rapid deceleration ...

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short ...