Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our ...

On November 30, 1954, an 8.5-pound (3.85 kg) chondrite meteorite, composed of iron and nickel, impacted Ann Hodges within her Sylacauga, Alabama, residence, causing a physical injury. This incident ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...

Imagine sipping your coffee when suddenly – BOOM! A sonic tremor rattles your home. That’s exactly what happened to one McDonough resident when a meteorite the size of a cherry tomato punched through ...

In 2000, a hiker in China’s Gobi Desert discovered the Fukang meteorite, a crystal-filled space rock valued at over $2 million. Scientists believe it formed 4.5 billion years ago near the mantle of an ...

The McDonough Meteorite, a 4.56-billion-year-old Low Metal (L) ordinary chondrite, impacted a Georgia home on June 26th, 2024. Eyewitness accounts and social media reports documented a significant ...

A mystery that puzzled scientists for more than half a century may finally have an answer. The strange crystals hidden in a famous Arizona meteorite have now been recreated in a lab, and they could ...