This meteorite was also part of the large Gibeon meteorite shower that rained rocks onto what is now Namibia thousands of years ago. But rather than evoking an animal face, this one can call to ...

The prolific Perseid meteor shower put on quite the show and we've rounded up some of the best photos from around the ... through debris — bits of ice and rock — left behind by Comet Swift ...

THE Lyrid meteor shower reached its peak in the early hours of this morning, resulting in some amazing photos. The first meteor shower of spring is taking over the sky this week so there is still ...

The space rock may be part of the ongoing Eta Aquarid meteor shower. A rock thought to be a meteorite crashed through the roof of a residential home in New Jersey's Hopewell Township on Monday ...

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 ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

New photos of the Martian landscape further rule out a meteorite impact as the culprit behind the "jelly doughnut" rock that mysteriously appeared in front of one of NASA's Mars rovers last month.

Observatoire de Paris astronomer Jeremie Vaubaillon said pictures of it shared ... adding that meteorites have 'no pointy, irregular spikes because the rock melts as it enters the atmosphere ...

The 2.2-pound space rock is estimated to be ... Based on the photos and description, Graham also suspected the object was a meteorite -- remnants of meteoroids that make it through the atmosphere ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaked on May 6, delighting skywatchers with a spectacular cosmic light show as debris from Halley's Comet careened into Earth's atmosphere to form majestic 'shooting ...

“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 ...