When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the ...

On Christmas Eve in 2023, a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft captured what looks like a barcode etched into the rusty ...

A meteoroid impact on Mars has led to an unusual series of dust avalanches, captured by the European Space Agency’s ExoMars ...

The Moon has no atmosphere, no weather, and no wind. Yet it faces an invisible bombardment more relentless than any ...

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 ...

For the first time, NASA has captured the weird sound of a meteoroid sailing through another planet’s atmosphere and crashing to the ground. The recording, posted Sept. 19 on YouTube, combines ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting ...

Add one more crater to the already beat-up moon. Astronomers have recorded a tiny blip northwest of Mare Imbrium, a flash caused by a meteoroid hit within the “Sea of Showers.” While such impacts are ...

— -- With one of NASA's defunct satellites crashing down to Earth this weekend, forgetting our more commonplace visitors from space, meteors, might be easy. But bear in mind that roughly 100 tons ...