A meteor is in the Earth's atmosphere, entering at high speed and burning up before hitting Earth. These are often called ...

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our planet is even harder. This is ...

The specimens in the Science History Institute's latest exhibit are spiky, striking and, in some cases, fluorescent. A few are toxic, and at least one is otherworldly. All of them are on permanent ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

The footage spread rapidly across TikTok and YouTube, with viewers dubbing the object "Venom" for its likeness to the Marvel character.

The highlights included a Mars meteorite, a beating artificial heart grown from stem cells, and Hello Kitty figures in the ...

New research suggests that this mystery platinum signature underneath the Greenland ice sheet may have originated from a ...

Ruth Hamilton woke up to find a hole in her ceiling, debris on her face and a 2.8-pound meteorite between her pillows One woman got the surprise — and scare — of a lifetime when she woke up to find a ...

At about 10 o’clock on the night of Feb. 28, 2021, a fireball streaked through the sky over England. The blazing extraterrestrial visitor was seen by more than 1,000 people, and its descent was filmed ...

A French distillery is using a meteorite discovered in Nebraska in 1977 to flavor its Shooting Star Vodka. Credit: Diana Robinson Photography via Getty Images Maxime Girardin descends from a long line ...