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

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon, recognised as the parent body of the annual Geminid meteor shower, occupies a unique position in planetary science. Despite its rocky, low-albedo nature, Phaethon exhibits ...

Meteoroid impacts create seismic waves that cause Mars to shake more strongly and deeply than previously thought. This is ...

NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission to Mercury has been out of operation for nearly six years, but the data it collected keeps on giving, from ...

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 ...

South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wanaka overnight with a loud sonic boom. The meteoroid became a fireball and raced above Queenstown around 11pm, before burning out ...