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 ...

A meteoroid is a small particle from an asteroid or comet orbiting the sun. Many are the size of a pebble. Once a meteoroid enters earth’s atmosphere it becomes a meteor. A meteor is a shooting ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

The newly identified meteoroid streams, observed by LADEE, occurred on January 9, April 2, April 5 and April 9, 2014. There’s evidence that the Moon has water (H2O) and hydroxyl (OH), a more ...

The "meteoroid cluster" phenomenon, a rare sight in which many meteors appear almost simultaneously, was observed in Aomori ...

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 ...

They found that 29 water releases between October 2013 and April 2014 coincided with when the moon was passing through known meteoroid streams. They published their findings today in the journal ...

Journal Reference: Stuart Pilorz, Peter Jenniskens. Sun Close-Encounter model of long-period comet and Meteoroid Orbit Stochastic Evolution. Icarus, 2025; 116559 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116559 ...

The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as it fell through the atmosphere, according to new research published in ...