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Artwork showing JWST after full deployment 1.5 million km from Earth. Credit: Northrup Grumman

JWST mirror hit by micrometeoroid, but NASA says damage is minimal

NASA’s huge telescope was hit by a tiny space rock late last month.
By Phil Plait | 
3 weeks ago
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Newly declassified flaming meteors could help us protect the planet

They're not UFOs, but hotter.
By Elizabeth Rayne | 
2 months ago
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Mercury's atmosphere thickened as we watched. The likely perp? Meteoroids.

By Phil Plait | 
8 months ago
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The Perseids peak this week! Here's how to watch one of the best meteor showers of 2021

By Phil Plait | 
10 months ago
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Ka-boom! Meteor explodes over Vermont with force of over 400 pounds of dynamite

By Josh Weiss | 
1 year ago
Three Geminid meteors from the 2012 shower. Credit: John Chumack

The sky is falling! Here's how to watch tonight's Perseid meteor shower

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
Artwork depicting the entry of asteroid 2014 AA into Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Dieter Spannknebe / Getty images / NASA

Chelyabinsk's (much) smaller sibling asteroid fell over Arizona in 2016

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
A good idea, but I suspect Photoshop. Credit: Not an Exact Science Show, used by permission

Is Earth being bombarded by teeny ultra-high-velocity meteors moving at near lightspeed?

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
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Guy walks out to his front yard, finds a rock from the birth of the solar system

By Elizabeth Rayne | 
2 years ago
Images from different cameras of the SonotaCo Network show the bright fireball of 28 April 2017 over Japan. The meteoroid likely came from the asteroid 2003 YT1.

Tracing a bright fireball back to its parent: the potentially hazardous asteroid 2003 YT1

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
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