The sound of a meteoroid crashing into Mars has been captured by NASA’s InSight lander, marking the first time for seismic signals from a meteoroid impact to be detected on another planet. The InSight ...

For the first time, NASA has captured the weird sound of a meteoroid sailing through another planet’s atmosphere and crashing to the ground. The recording, posted Sept. 19 on YouTube, combines ...

Of all the ways that we explore Mars — from taking photos from orbit, to sending rovers to pick up and analyze rocks from the surface — one method you might not know about is the use of seismometers.

A small space rock crashed into Mars recently, and NASA has captured an amazing view of its crater grave site, as well as the trail from an avalanche triggered by the impact. The new Mars crater was ...

For the first time, a team of NASA and international scientists has gathered a detailed understanding of the effects a small asteroid impact can have on Earth. The unprecedented data obtained as the ...

NASA's InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest seen on Mars since ...

These craters were formed by a Sept. 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s InSight. Taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this enhanced-color image highlights ...

Boulder-size blocks of water ice can be seen around the rim of an impact crater on Mars, as viewed by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE camera) aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...