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While Artemis II astronauts circled the Moon in April, volunteers with backyard telescopes spotted bright flashes of space rocks striking the lunar surface. Now NASA needs more amateur astronomers to keep watching and submit their videos.
Researchers at Rice University recreated Mercury's mysterious surface rocks in their lab using a meteorite recipe, unlocking secrets about our solar system's most elusive planet. The breakthrough reveals how sulfur transforms planetary surfaces in ways never seen on Earth.
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission watched tiny meteorites slam into the moon in real time, sparking cheers from scientists tracking risks to future lunar bases. The rare observations during a total solar eclipse will help protect crews returning to the moon by 2028.
NASA astronauts on the Artemis 2 mission witnessed something incredible: meteorites crashing into the Moon's surface in real time, causing mission control to erupt in cheers. The unexpected observations are already helping scientists plan safer future lunar bases.
Astronauts flying past the moon's far side witnessed something incredibly rare: six meteorites striking the lunar surface in real time, creating brilliant flashes of light. It's the first time humans have directly observed these cosmic collisions during a mission.
Scientists studying microscopic crystals older than our sun are discovering our solar system may have formed from massive star winds, not an explosive supernova. These tiny grains, preserved in meteorites, offer humanity's only window into the moments before our cosmic home existed.
After analyzing 50-year-old lunar soil from Apollo missions, NASA scientists discovered that meteorites delivered far less water to Earth than previously thought. The finding rewrites our understanding of where Earth's oceans came from.