A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The dramatic event took place over the North Pacific Ocean.

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars. The government legalized meteorite exports in 2020, ...

A new time lapse from the International Space Station captures a meteor streaking into the atmosphere and vaporizing above ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

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When NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft delivered its sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, scientists opened an ancient time capsule. Inside it were grains of dust and rock older than our solar ...

On 13 April 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass safely at a distance of about 32,000 kilometers above Earth's surface, within the geostationary orbit, posing no threat to the planet. This ...

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