Fire and Brimstone: A Giant Space Rock Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City and Everyone in It
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom. As the inhabitants…
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom. As the inhabitants…
An Ancient Disaster: Researchers present evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed a biblical city in the Jordan Valley. Scientists have found evidence of a cosmic…
While the major meteor showers draw the most attention, large and bright fireballs can blaze through the sky at any time of year. Abundant streaks…
The “young” and well-preserved crater helps scientists understand cratering processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. Most asteroids that survive an encounter with…
Research team led by the University of Göttingen discovers crater floor sagging from bowl-shaped volcanic ash layer. The almost 15-million-year-old Nördlinger Ries is an asteroid…
Researchers report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that pass close to Earth orbit and return as infrequently…
During the week of April 26, members of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) will participate in a “tabletop exercise” to simulate an asteroid impact scenario. The…
Research led by the University of Kent’s School of Physical Sciences has found new evidence of a low-altitude meteoritic touchdown event reaching the Antarctic ice…
From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter’s clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph…
A meteor is a rocky or metallic body that enters the Earth’s atmosphere (or the atmosphere of another planet) from space at high speed and…
The LIC1 camera of the Canary Long-Baseline Observatory (CILBO) on Tenerife captured the peak of the 2020 Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, detecting dozens of…
The Perseid meteor shower is here! With Comet NEOWISE making its way out of the solar system, it is time for a celestial show caused…
Scientists reveal solar system’s oldest molecular fluids could hold the key to early life. The oldest molecular fluids in the solar system could have supported…
Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment…
Planetologists show that the meteorite contains minerals that formed under the presence of water on small planetesimals in the early history of our solar system….
The Earth is pocked with roughly 190 major meteor craters, yet scientists only know the age of just a few. Recently, A NASA scientist analyzed…
On January 21, 2020, a foreign body crashed to Earth causing a cascade of bright light to trail through the sky. The fleeting flash was…
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it…