A fireball is a bright meteor that could result in a meteorite falling to the ground. A meteor is a streak in the sky caused by a meteoroid entering Earth’s atmosphere, usually at more than 70,000km/h ...
One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting near Jupiter known as Trojans. These asteroids are thought to be ancient ...
On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...
A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after identifying a meteorite that crashed through a car window and into a carton of ice cream in Pennsylvania nearly two years ago.
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...
The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.
YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...