Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short ...

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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 ...

NASA's InSight mission detected a Marsquake on Dec. 24, 2022. Turns out that it was from a an impact of a meteoroid. InSight's principal investigator W. Bruce Barnerdt explains how the seismic data ...

The largest asteroid since 2004 will pass close by the Earth (in astronomical standards) Wednesday night. The asteroid will fly by just over 1 million miles from the earth. Many asteroids are much ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Their observations confirm water lurks in the moon's subsoil, not just at poles. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Soil samples collected by astronauts on the Apollo missions ...

Metro Phoenix residents reportedly saw a green flash of light in the night sky on Tuesday, according to social media posts. The American Meteor Society noted on its website that it received 80 reports ...

The meteoroid stream of long-period comet Thatcher (white line). Each meteoroid moved on its own orbit and created a Lyrid shower meteor when it hit Earth after approaching the orbit of Earth (blue ...