The hunt is on for pieces of a meteor that crashed near Cairns, Australia, on Saturday night. The meteoroid fireball, which gave off a neon-green hue as it hurtled through the atmosphere, lit up the ...

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 ...

Massive Mars meteoroid strike that set off 'marsquake' helps NASA understand Red Planet's crust and core - NASA researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meteoroid atmospheric entry is a multifaceted phenomenon wherein small celestial objects, upon encountering Earth’s atmosphere at high velocities, experience rapid heating that leads to ablation, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - There are many things in space for us to see in the night sky. There are also many things we don't know until they hit our atmosphere. Yes, the meteorologist is finally going to ...

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 ...

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty slopes of Mars. The image, taken by ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, shows ...

Scientists revealed Thursday that two of its Mars robots recorded a sizable quake, leaving a crater bigger than any ever recorded in the solar system. The Mars Insight lander recorded a magnitude 4 ...

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