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 ...

The video of the event shows a bright flash of light against the stark blackness of the Moon's dark side. Similar in brilliance to the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, the asteroid impact is the ...

Related: Watch a meteor smack the blood moon in this lunar eclipse video! The European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Lunar Impacts and Optical Transients (NELIOTA) project, based at Kryoneri ...

Their high-velocity impacts generate intense heat and create craters, while also giving out a brilliant flash of visible light. Moon impacts can be seen from Earth, as captured above, if they are ...

Using recent research data that reveals the approximate age of over 100 of the Moon’s many impact sites, System Sounds created a fantastic time lapse video that condenses well over a billion ...

These include the following: The asteroid appears to explode before it hits the moon. The shockwave unnaturally passes in front of clouds in the sky. The video zooms out after the impact ...

As we approach the peak of the Geminid meteor shower overnight on Friday (Dec. 13), the skies are beginning to light up with impressive meteors striking Earth's atmosphere. But Earth isn't the ...

Scientists trying to understand the evolution of impact craters on Earth ... a new NASA video explains. "Without craters like Linne on the moon, we wouldn't know how landforms evolve over time ...

The video, titled "moon got hit by an asteroid," was published ... "Differences between the Moon's near and Far Sides Linked to Colossal Ancient Impact." Brown University, https://www.brown.edu ...

Astronomers at Britain’s Royal Observatory wound back the video and reported a second ... Orbiter could document how the impact, or impacts, changed the moon’s terrain. That could give ...

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