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 ...

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 ...

NASA on Thursday shared its observations of a meteoriod impact on Mars that occurred last year – by far the largest meteriod impact the agency has observed on the Red Planet, and one that helped ...

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 ...

People have been looking at Mars and even sending stuff up there for so long that we feel we know the place by heart: it's a reddish, dead world bathed in blueish light, filled with dust, and ready to ...

"These observations could lead to a better understanding of what happens on Mars today." On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

These craters were formed by a Sept. 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s InSight. Taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this enhanced-color image highlights ...

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