Meteor Crater and Lowell Observatory co-host and annual celebration of Asteroid Day, June 30th!

Hosted by the Center for International Research and Restitution on Impacts and on Rochechouart (CIRRIR), Rochechouart France is celebrating with a series of public events, competitions and presentations!

An exciting new series launched on Netflix features the Barringer Meteor Crater!

First discovered in March 2022 at Palomar Observatory in California, Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF is approaching and is soon to closest to earth.

Have fun while learning the facts about the results of asteroid and meteor impacts on the earth!

Don’t miss the Lowell Observatory DART Impact Event Monday September 26!

Scientists are discovering new evidence from the exact day of the Chicxulub impact event 66 million years ago, which will be featured in a new BBC documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough

The recently released Netflix film Don’t Look Up explores the science of discovering an asteroid headed for earth. An astronomer consultant on the film, Dr. Amy Mainzer, discusses how realistically the science is portrayed

Sometimes a flash in the night is actually an asteroid slamming into the moon. 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 lunar impacts. A new such telescope recently began operations, confirming observations of another telescope's 100th impact flash detection.