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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...