Meteors
The Oort Cloud Could Have More Rock Than Previously Believed
The Oort Cloud is a collection of icy objects in the furthest reaches of the Solar System. It contains the…
InSight Heard Four Meteoroids Crash Into Mars
For the first time, a spacecraft has detected acoustic and seismic waves from impacts on Mars. NASA’s InSight lander made…
Space Force is Releasing Decades of Tracking Data on a Thousand Bright Meteor Fireballs
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a…
A Tiny Asteroid was Discovered Mere Hours Before it Crashed Into the Earth
Last week, a small asteroid was detected just two hours before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily, it was only about…
It’s Been Constantly Raining Meteors on Mars for 600 Million Years. Earth too.
New research shows that Mars has faced a constant rain of meteors during the last 600 million years. This finding…
Supercomputer Simulates What Happens When Meteors Strike the Atmosphere
In space, it’s almost always raining dust. Most of that dust is so small a microscope would have a hard…
3,600 Years ago, a 50-Meter-Wide Meteor Exploded in the Sky and Destroyed a City Near the Dead Sea
An archeological dig has uncovered evidence of a massive cosmic airburst event approximately 3,600 years ago that destroyed an entire…
Researchers Have Taught a Drone to Recognize and Hunt Down Meteorites Autonomously
Planetary scientists estimate that each year, about 500 meteorites survive the fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere and fall to our…
100-meter Asteroid Created a Strange Impact Event in Antarctica 430,000 Years Ago
The effects of ancient asteroid impacts on Earth are still evident from the variety of impact craters across our planet.…
MESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike Mercury
Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But…