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Girl Awestruck After Capturing Brilliant Blue Comet By Chance on Camera
Futurism via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn Portugal, a comet shot through the sky and illuminated the whole thing turquoise — and one lucky...
A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
Salon.com· 6 days agoAs Andy Rivkin, one of the team leaders, was getting ready to appear in NASA’s live broadcast of the...
How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu
Ars Technica· 3 days agoAn asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from rocks to radiation. Billions...
A massive, icy Mars crater stares up at a Red Planet orbiter (image)
SPACE.com· 6 days agoA massive Mars impact crater dominates a new view from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). The...
Video: fireball streaks across Montana sky
KRTV Great Falls· 20 hours agoJen Graf shared video of the the fireball that was captured on her home security camera in Conrad
Mars craters pop in new images from ExoMars
EarthSky· 3 days agoThe terrain of Mars has pockmarks and ripples from a variety of forces: asteroid collisions, volcanoes, wind erosion, and the movement of water and ice.
Video: Stunning meteor lights up the sky over Europe
WJZY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNASA explains on its website that comets are icy “cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.” They can range in width from a...
Why we're one step closer to understanding how Earth got its oceans (op-ed)
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEarth may have gotten some of its water from 'dark comets,' and the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin...
The Bennu samples have rocks unlike any meteorite ever found
Astronomy Magazine· 7 days agoToday, planetary scientists can study not only rocks that have fallen from the sky — they have begun...
New view shows the largest impact crater on Mars surface
Houston Chronicle· 5 days agoThe basin is roughly 2,050 miles wide, or twice the size of Earth's Sahara Desert. The region is known to exhibit ice-related features on and below the surface, including ...