Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The best time to see the June Bootids in the U.S. is in the hours following sunset on the night of June 27, when the radiant ...

The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia added a 150-gram meteorite, recently seen blazing through the sky, to its collection.

Watch an incredible experiment as we melt a real space meteorite discovered in a scorching hot crater! ☄️🔥 See what happens ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Remnants of a cosmic 'fireball' object witnessed soaring across Georgia may have broken off and plummeted through the roof of ...

The meteorite is going up for auction on July 16 at Sotheby’s Natural History sale in New York, and it is estimated to reach ...

Shock features in meteorites are a sort of forensic evidence — they reveal how often, and how violently, space rocks have collided with each other, and with planetary bodies, over the eons.

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through space relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our planet. This ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

The bit of falling space rock, caught on camera in July, was confirmed to be a meteorite by the University of Alberta, which said that the footage was the first of its kind.