When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the ...

“Dust, wind and sand dynamics appear to be the main seasonal drivers of slope streak formation,” Bickel said in a statement. ...

Sometime between 2013 and 2017, a meteoroid slammed into the edge of Apollinaris Mons, a massive ancient volcano. Fine dust then cascaded down steep slopes of the crater and formed the dark streaks ...

A meteoroid impact on Mars has led to an unusual series of dust avalanches, captured by the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The impact near Apollinaris Mons created streaks that ...

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that ...

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 deceleration ...

A spectacular lunar explosion, captured by amateur astronomer Daichi Fujii, illuminated the Moon's night side on October 30 and November 1, 2025. Thes ...

Simulation of the collision between a meteoroid and the lunar surface reveals how the cloud hovering over the moon is formed.

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram into our planet, but we could spot them using the "crumb"-like meteoroid trails they leave behind, a new study suggests. Many comets visit the solar ...

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short ...

A FOX6 News tower camera captured an apparent meteor shoot over downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday night, Oct. 29.