Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.' ...
A stunning sporadic fireball meteor, identified as SPMN110225F, was witnessed across southwestern Europe on February 11, 2025, at 20:09 UTC (21:09 CET). The meteor, which reached a speed of 68,000 ...
An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
What's a meteorite? Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through dusty debris trails left by comets and other space objects as they orbit the sun. The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – ...
The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The ...
"While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1% to a ...
The pair reported what they found to the University of Alberta's Meteorite Reporting ... of space rock that hit Earth after surviving a trip through its scorching atmosphere.
Those resulting fireballs, better known as "shooting stars," are meteors. If meteoroids survive their trip to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere, they are called meteorites, NASA says.