The Oort Cloud is a collection of icy objects in the furthest reaches of the Solar System. It contains the…
For the first time, a spacecraft has detected acoustic and seismic waves from impacts on Mars. NASA’s InSight lander made…
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a…
Last week, a small asteroid was detected just two hours before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily, it was only about…
New research shows that Mars has faced a constant rain of meteors during the last 600 million years. This finding…
In space, it’s almost always raining dust. Most of that dust is so small a microscope would have a hard…
An archeological dig has uncovered evidence of a massive cosmic airburst event approximately 3,600 years ago that destroyed an entire…
Planetary scientists estimate that each year, about 500 meteorites survive the fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere and fall to our…
The effects of ancient asteroid impacts on Earth are still evident from the variety of impact craters across our planet.…
Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But…