Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

Experts have scoured hundreds of kilometres of salt flats deep in the West Australian outback to find pieces of meteorite that lit up the night sky over Perth and other parts of the state.

The Eta Aquariids meteor shower peaks in May of each year, per NASA. These meteors are specifically known for their speed, and Eta Aquariid meteors can travel about 40.7 miles (65.4 kilometers) per ...

“I have the expertise that I’ve looked at hundreds, if not thousands of these types of photos,” Herd said, noting that meteorites are coated with a black shell that forms when space rocks ...

In a breathtaking display of nature's beauty, skywatchers worldwide witnessed a rare natural event: the Perseid meteor shower coinciding with the northern lights. The Perseid meteor shower peak ...

An Austrian forest ranger picked up the rock in 1976 ... while digging through old photos. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has written for The Times about meteorites in Antarctica and ...

Reports online suggested that a meteorite burst through the roof of someone’s house, and pictures posted to Facebook showed rocks on the ground that resembled meteorites. When people start to ...

1.On Wednesday night, the Geminids meteor shower was positively visible in the sky ... meaning that they're likely primarily made of rock and not ice and dust.

we’ll bring you photos of some of the minerals that wowed us, some of which are billions of years old. The composition of meteorites, those cryptic chunks of metal and rock that crash down to ...

Meteorites – fragments of rock that have fallen to Earth from space ... if you think you’ve found a meteorite. The initial pictures he sent were very promising; our primary task was then ...

The annual Perseid meteor shower reached its peak this weekend ... a big ball of ice and rock that sheds pieces of dusty debris as it orbits around the sun. When the Earth passes by, those ...