The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen ...

During their historic lunar flyby, astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission witnessed meteorites striking the rugged surface ...

Orion crew observed six rare meteorite impacts on the Moon, helping scientists study risks and surface changes during a lunar ...

High-precision oxygen isotopes in Apollo lunar soils reveal a persistent impactor fingerprint, showing that impacts contributed only a tiny fraction of Earth's water In a paper published in the ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

A week after a meteor exploded over Ohio, more fireballs have been caught on camera over the state. See the photos.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals a previously unknown meteorite impact that took place in northeastern Brazil some 6.3 million years ago. An ...

During their historic lunar fly-by, astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission witnessed meteorites striking the rugged surface of the Moon, a sight that has piqued scientists’ curiosity.

The Space Safety Programme of the European Space Agency has linked a meteoroid currently estimated to be up to a few meters wide to the fireball sightings over Europe on March 8, 2026. The program's ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which ...

Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...