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 ...

When you think of a speeding space rock crashing into a planet, you might think of a clangorous and shaking sound. But according to new audio from NASA, it turns out that when it comes to a meteoroid ...

A rocky meteoroid that exploded over Canada last year was more extraordinary than it first seemed: it originated from the outer solar system, where scientists thought only icy bodies exist. A ...

Meteoroid impacts create seismic waves that cause Mars to shake more strongly and deeply than previously thought. This is ...

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 ...

Telescopes show impact spot in Jovian clouds. Be glad you weren't there. July 21, 2009 — -- If you live in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter, you probably had a rough day Sunday. Something -- ...

The moon is shrouded by an unstable cloud of "nanodust" kicked up by cosmic impacts, and lit up by sunlight, a new study finds. Similar clouds of teeny dust particles may envelop other airless bodies, ...

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 ...

Last week, a small meteoroid stopped by for a quick visit into our atmosphere before bouncing back off into the cosmos. In order for a meteoroid to bounce off of the Earth’s atmosphere as this one did ...

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 ...

Last September, a pair of telescopes from a project called MIDAS (Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System) did what they were designed for and monitored the blast from a meteoroid plowing into the ...

— -- 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 ...