A meter-wide meteoroid impacted the Moon's surface September 11, 2013, producing a bright explosion and digging a new crater about 40 meters in diameter. Seen as a bright flash of light in a video ...

The video begins its countdown over 1.3 billion years ago, showing the lunar impact sites appearing all over the Moon’s surface. Along with the spinning Moon and colorful craters that appear as ...

Scientists managed to capture it on video from Earth using the Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System (MIDAS), a set of telescopes in Seville, Spain. This is how it looked: Image: J.M. Madiedo ...

The moon is seen over Dresden, Germany, last week. Researchers say they filmed video of a meteorite impact that sets a new record as the brightest ever recorded.

The video, titled "moon got hit by an asteroid," was published to Facebook on July 16, 2022, by the account InsanePatient2. As of this writing, it had been viewed more than 7.4 million times with ...

The flash of a meteor impact is visible at lower left in this gorgeous shot of the "Super Blood Wolf Moon" total lunar eclipse of Jan. 20-21, 2019, captured by Brett Ashton.

Because such impacts offer valuable information about Earth's own barrage of space rocks, scientists have established programs that look for the brief bright flashes on the moon that represent ...

The bright spot lasted a total of 8.3 seconds, and for a tiny fraction of that, if you were staring at the moon at just the right moment, it would have been visible to the naked eye.

In 2015, NASA published a study on Geminid meteor shower lunar impact observations and found 19 such strikes in 2006 and 21 in 2010. Astonishingly, 55% of all impacts witnessed on the moon in 2010 ...

A meteorite that smashed into the moon last September caused a bright flash that persisted for 8 seconds, setting a new record for lunar impacts. The high-speed collision was recorded on video and ...