With no moon to disrupt the show, the peak of the Orionid meteor shower is set for a starry showcase for stargazers on the ...

The Tunguska Nature Reserve, some 80 km from the village of Vanavara, was established around the famous meteorite fall site only in 1995, when the phenomenon turned almost 90 years. The procedure of ...

NEW YORK, NY – More than 150 years after a Martian meteorite fell in India, a much larger relative is now making headlines—this time at a high-profile auction in New York. A massive chunk of Mars, ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

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

SYRACUSE, N.Y — A man driving along I-81 in the Salina area had his dashcam rolling when a bright light streaked across the early morning sky on Sunday morning. It appeared to be a meteorite, which ...

On February 13, 2023, a tiny asteroid named 2023 CX1 was spotted about seven hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere. It ripped across the sky over northern France, producing a bright fireball, ...

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Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.