A meteoroid lit up the sky above the English Channel early Monday morning February as it streaked through the atmosphere,…
The Oort Cloud is a collection of icy objects in the furthest reaches of the Solar System. It contains the…
Tiny little bullets flood the solar system, each micrometeoroid a potential hazard. New research has found that the James Webb…
Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But…
Here’s something we don’t see very often: an Earth-grazing meteoroid. On September 22, 2020, a small space rock skipped through…
As soon as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, there was a big surprise. Scientists expected…
A new study from Purdue University indicates that Earth's atmosphere will break up small meteoroids, which is good news for…
If the hoped-for meteor blast materializes this Friday night / Saturday morning (May 23-24) Earth won't be the only world getting…
A little more than week ago a 7,000 ton, 50-foot (15-meter) wide meteoroid made an unexpected visit over Russia to…
With all the various space rocks flying by and into Earth last Friday, perhaps you’ve been wondering about the correct…