A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much brighter object that explodes when it penetrates the atmosphere but doesn't ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is known for its fast fireballs, which occur as Earth passes through the rubble left by ...

Did you see something unusual in the sky last night? You may have caught a rare meteor shower caused by debris from Halley's ...

An ancient meteorite strike hit what is now Scotland significantly later than previously thought, scientists say. The finding ...

The discovery, which became Michigan’s sixth-largest recorded meteorite, is estimated to be worth $100,000. “Within minutes — within seconds — I knew that this was it. It was a real one ...

a meteorite sample, along with several precious stones, was sent by Dr. Mohammadali Makkizadeh, one of the prominent professors of petrology, to the laboratory, adding with studies conducted on the ...

In the 2009 two-part miniseries Meteor (streaming now on Peacock), an asteroid breaks up and is surrounded by a swarm of meteor fragments which rain destructively down on the planet. In the real ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?

Researchers initially believed the unnamed meteorite hit Earth 1.17 billion years ago, creating the Stac Fada Member rock layer in northwestern Scotland. However, a new study has determined that ...