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 ...

The Geminids meteor shower peaks during mid-December and is considered to be one of the best and most reliable annual meteor ...

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 ...

On December 12, 2025, a team of astronomers at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) witnessed something truly rare—a brief flash of light on the Moon’s surface caused by a meteoroid impact.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...