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 ...

The meteoroid stream of long-period comet Thatcher (white line). Each meteoroid moved on its own orbit and created a Lyrid shower meteor when it hit Earth after approaching the orbit of Earth (blue ...

Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer ...

The moon's oddly skewed dust cloud may be caused by an extreme day-night temperature difference, a new study suggests.

Two asteroids crashed into the Moon last week, causing massive bursts of light visible from Earth and likely creating sizeable craters.

The American Meteor Society is a nonprofit that observes and collects information about meteors and related phenomona. While ...