meteoroids
Explaining Different Kinds of Meteor Showers. It’s the Way the Comet Crumbles
The Universe often puts on a good show for us down here on Earth but one of the best spectacles…
Can Meteor Showers Be Dangerous to Spacecraft?
We’ve all read the advice, during a meteor shower there is no equipment needed. All you need to do is…
Venus is the Perfect Place to Count Meteors
Watching meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere and streak across the sky as the visual spectacle known as meteors, it is…
Another Meteoroid Discovered Right Before it Hits the Atmosphere
A meteoroid lit up the sky above the English Channel early Monday morning February as it streaked through the atmosphere,…
The Oort Cloud Could Have More Rock Than Previously Believed
The Oort Cloud is a collection of icy objects in the furthest reaches of the Solar System. It contains the…
What Does Micrometeoroid Damage do to Gossamer Structures Like Webb’s Sunshield?
Tiny little bullets flood the solar system, each micrometeoroid a potential hazard. New research has found that the James Webb…
MESSENGER Saw a Meteoroid Strike Mercury
Telescopes have captured meteoroids hitting the Moon and several spacecraft imaged Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smacking into Jupiter in 1994. But…
Video Shows a Meteoroid Skipping off Earth’s Atmosphere
Here’s something we don’t see very often: an Earth-grazing meteoroid. On September 22, 2020, a small space rock skipped through…
Bennu is Constantly Getting Sandblasted by Tiny Meteoroids
As soon as the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, there was a big surprise. Scientists expected…
Meteors Explode from the Inside When They Reach the Atmosphere
A new study from Purdue University indicates that Earth's atmosphere will break up small meteoroids, which is good news for…