Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc student and member of the…
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Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, haunted skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway on December 13, 2009. This 30-second long exposure records their…
November 2023 skywatching highlights include the peak of the Leonid meteor shower, Saturn in Aquarius, and opposite views of Venus and Jupiter in the morning…
Asteroid “Chelyabinsk 2013” explodes over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15, 2013. Credit: The Planetary Society/YouTube On February 15, 2013, the people of…
Asteroid 2023 CX1 entering Earth’s atmosphere captured in the skies over the southern Netherlands. Credit: Gijs de Reijke Seventh Shooting Star Ever Spotted Before Impact…
The appearance of the Moon during the November 2022 total lunar eclipse. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio The Moon goes all red, plus Leonid meteors!…
The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite caused a series of shock waves that damaged 7,200 buildings, broke windows, and injured 1,500 people. Its characteristics may help to…
GOES 17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper detection of the August 13, 2022, fireball over northern Utah. Credit: NOAA On Saturday morning, a brilliant meteor flew through…
Perseid meteor shower time-lapse photo. Often bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, the Perseids will peak on…
An investigation employing X-ray crystallography and Raman spectroscopy revealed that the carbon crystals were indeed unusually formed varieties of graphite. The strange carbon microcrystals have…
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming along a trail of debris left during its multiple trips…
The 1833 Leonid Meteor storm, as seen over Niagara Falls. Credit: Edmund Weiß (1888) As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris…
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming along a trail of debris left during its multiple trips…
Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLM) image from the GOES 16 satellite. Credit: NOAA Loud fireball spotted over southern Mississippi mostly heard, hardly seen. A fiery meteor…
This photograph taken by an International Space Station astronaut shows a bright meteor from the Perseid meteor shower in Earth’s atmosphere. The brightest meteors are…
Klet Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact. Credit: ESA Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions…
Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. Credit: Pierre Beck Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha…
October 8, 2021 The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China. Despite China’s large land area, only one impact crater—the…
July 23, 2017 – January 17, 2022 Researchers are using data from weather satellites to detect meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere. The new year began with…
Could it happen? Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change…