Geologists and the general public are both amazed by the discovery of a totally new mineral this week by the precious stone mining business Shefa Yamim in northern Israel. Image description : Carmeltazite, often known as " Carmel Sapphire ,…
On July 7th, a massive fireball was seen shooting over the sky of New Zealand; it was probably a piece of a meteor that crashed into the water. A meteor was spotted in the sky over Cook Strait, which separates New Zealand’s North Island and Sout…
It's been a long-held belief that many of the key ingredients needed for the creation of life on Earth came from outer space. The source behind these ingredients was thought to be meteorites that landed on the planet billions of years ago. …
Damage to the James Webb Telescope’s primary mirror from a micrometeorite strike in May is worse than first thought, according to new images revealed in a new report. A paper published Tuesday on the academic preprint server arxiv.org detailing …
We know, rocks and asteroids crash into the moon all the time and that’s the reason it's so cratered. But there's something about looking at it in action, that's pretty incredible. So exactly how big was the crash? It was so big that re…
NASA's ultra expensive James Webb Space Telescope has already had to endure a dust-sized micrometeoroid impacting with one of its primary mirror segments, roughly a month before the official start of scientific operations. Fortunately, engin…
All the ingredients of our DNA have been found on meteorites now, scientists say. What does this mean? Quite simply that life on Earth could have come from space. Rocks from space that crashed into our planet Earth over the last century containe…
An astronomer discovered an asteroid approximately 2 hours before it impacted Earth over the Arctic Ocean on March 11, 2022. The fireball in this image, from January 21, 1999, is an example of what the incoming bright meteor may have looked like…
A meteor has been caught on video soaring through the night sky, and ask it passes overhead, it can be seen burning up. A meteor soaring through the air has lit up the night sky over a city, and a webcam has caught the entire event on video. The…
Skygazers believe they saw a meteor streak across the Texas sky Sunday night. NASA Meteor Watch confirmed what hundreds of eyewitnesses across the Midwest already knew, that a fireball seen streaking across the night sky was a meteor. The space…
Scientists believe they have identified a meteorite formed in the first million years of our solar system, making it the oldest known meteor of volcanic origin. The space rock, which began its journey some 4.5 billion years ago, has already pr…
Sometimes in landscape photography, nature smiles at your camera and surprises you with much more than you were hoping to capture. This photo is one example of that. While photographing an erupting volcano, the photographer saw a shooting star flas…
Representatives from NASA recently had their eye on a remote school in Far North Queensland amid claims of a fallen meteorite on Monday. However, the astronomy experts were left red-faced after the truth about the shock ' space landing …
A meteor crashed and burned in Earth’s atmosphere over the US and Canada, with astonishing footage by a 24-hour streaming camera. Footage picked up by the live webcam service EarthCam shows an object passing by the CN tower in Totonto. The w…
