Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

Now, scientists have calculated the chance that falling rocket junk could enter the airspace, potentially striking an ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly increased risk ...

What would happen if asteroid 2025 CQ struck Earth? An asteroid like 2025 CQ entering Earth's atmosphere could explode in the sky with a force far stronger than any nuclear explosion. The similar ...

That's because of how sunlight strikes the moon's surface after passing through the atmosphere ... part of Earth's shadow, or umbra, according to NASA, some of the sunlight entering Earth's ...

However, meteorites experience intense heat and pressure when they enter Earth's atmosphere, and they are exposed to water and oxidation between the time when they fall and when they are picked up ...

Sometimes they shoot toward the inner solar system and enter Earth's vicinity ... which entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the air over Siberia in 1908. The blast was equivalent to ...