The Moon is no stranger to being struck by huge lumps of space rock. In fact, new research has shown that, nearly four ...

It will be one of the brightest comets to pass Earth in 20 years. The space rock, formally known as G3 ATLAS (C/2024), reached peak brightness on 13 January. It will maintain that glow over the ...

Some models predicted that our planet could drift through a cloud of meteoroids that have separated from the comet’s kilometer-wide nucleus. This possibility had the International Meteor ...

Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram into our planet, but we could spot them using the "crumb"-like meteoroid ...

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

Meteoroid streams and meteor showers are fascinating celestial phenomena that occur when Earth passes through trails of debris left by comets or asteroids. These streams consist of small particles ...

Countless celestial objects traverse the cosmos, each with its own unique characteristics and potential impact, literally, on Earth. Among ...

As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month ... if it’s smaller, it’s a meteoroid. When meteoroids burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors — otherwise known ...

Chiron sometimes ejects gas and dust, like comets do. The researchers used JWST to try to see what that gas and dust is made of – not just what's in the space around the centaur in what is known as a ...

In a paper published in the journal Icarus, they ascribe the differences to the conditions in the protoplanetary disk where comets formed 4.5 billion years ago. "The meteoroids we see as meteors ...

Like all comets, G3 ATLAS is basically one big dirty snowball. Made of the icy leftovers from when the solar system first formed, it begins to melt as it approaches our star, causing it to grow a ...

But there’s more! Meteors, meteorites and comets are different from asteroids, and the terms are not always interchangeable. A meteoroid is a small rock, measuring anywhere between a grain of ...