NASA
Gravity Assist: These Space Rocks Have Seen It All, with Neyda Abreu
How do we know if a rock came from the Moon, Mars, or an asteroid? Planetary scientist Neyda Abreu has looked inside all kinds of meteorites to understand where they came from and what’s inside them. She also traveled to Antarctica to...
One Minute History
The Ensisheim Meteor - One Minute History
November 7, 1492 - A meteorite crashes through Earth’s atmosphere, creating a sonic boom and illuminating the sky above the Austrian capital. Known as the Donnerstein, or Thunderstone, the deafening sound of the fireball is heard over...
Next Animation Studio
Mars might have formed over longer time than previously thought
The early solar system was a chaotic place with many large-scale collisions.
NASA
Tour of Asteroid Bennu
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by...
NASA
Arriving at Asteroid Bennu
Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of the solar system, remnants from the dawn of planet formation that may have delivered organics and water to early Earth, and which could hold clues to the origins of life. Now, a NASA mission...
One Minute History
The Ensisheim Meteor VERTICAL - One Minute History
November 7, 1492 - A meteorite crashes through Earth’s atmosphere, creating a sonic boom and illuminating the sky above the Austrian capital. Known as the Donnerstein, or Thunderstone, the deafening sound of the fireball is heard over...
NASA
NASA | Visions of Goddard
Excerpts from 14 short films about NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Next Animation Studio
What were the mysterious fireballs that crashed in Chile?
Residents of Chiloe Island saw a mysterious fireball blazing down the sky before fragmenting on September 25.
NASA
Water Released from Moon During Meteor Showers
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet debris strikes the Moon it vaporizes on impact, creating a shock wave in the lunar soil. For a sufficiently large...
NASA
Water Released from Moon: Director's Cut
Scientists have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers. When a speck of comet debris strikes the Moon it vaporizes on impact, creating a shock wave in the lunar soil. For a sufficiently large...
Next Animation Studio
Origin stories of Earth and Mars involved massive collisions, not the slow buildup of pebbles
Earth and Mars were likely generated by regular collisions between giant Moon-to-Mars-size rocks, rather than tiny pebbles clumping together.
NASA
NASA | Inside Astrobiology: Jaime Cook
Jamie Cook, an astrobiologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, talks about her work in the lab and some of her most exciting discoveries.
Science360
Extremophile Hunter
With support from the National Science Foundation, Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible--from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets...
Next Animation Studio
Antarctic ice likely home to over 300,000 meteorites
An artificial intelligence program has used satellite data to project that more than 300,000 meteorites may lie undiscovered on the surface of Antarctica.
NASA
NASA | DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space
NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit"...
Next Animation Studio
Why the Moon has a tail
Scientists have known that the Moon has a tail, like a comet, since the late 1990s, but now they know where it comes from — and why it’s brighter sometimes than others.
Mazz Media
Meteor
This live-action video program is about the word meteor. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word meteor through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Curated Video
Exploring Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites: A Journey Through Space Debris
This video explains the difference between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites. They discuss the history of meteors and how they were once believed to be fireballs or signs of impending doom. The video also covers the origin and...
Mazz Media
Moon
This live-action video program is about the word moon. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word moon through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
Bloomberg
Football Can Be 'Exploited' Further, Says US Buyout Firm Carlyle
"Football and sports in general have proven to be a very valuable property that has further potential to exploit," says Marco De Benedetti, Carlyle Group Inc.'s co-head of Europe private equity. Carlyle is one of a number of Wall Street...
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Giant meteorite impact on the Moon, forming an impact basin. Some impact basins were subsequently filled by volcanic dark lava eruptions, which formed the dark lunar seas visible today..
Giant meteorite impact on the Moon, forming an impact basin. Some impact basins were subsequently filled by volcanic dark lava eruptions, which formed the dark lunar seas visible today..
Bridgeman Arts
1970s: Boys speak and gesture
1970s: Boys speak and gesture. Exhibit on meteorites in North Carolina.
Getty Images
Meteorites fall toward Earth in a computer generated animation.
Meteorites fall toward Earth in a computer generated animation.