A monumental discovery has revealed that an asteroid struck the East Coast of North America roughly 35 million years ago, ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

After a suspected meteor fell in metro Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, meteorite hunters are searching for fragments. But how do you know if you found a meteorite or just a rock?

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

The study of the origin and history of the solar system, planets and natural satellites, interplanetary dust and interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, and meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters ...

Flipped Field. One large meteorite is believed to have fallen in the area of southern China, the Philippines and Australia, where tektites found on land all appear to have had the same origin.

The team obtained the 431.3-gram Paitan main mass and 3.3-gram Pampanga fragment from Dieter Heinlein, a German meteoriticist collecting meteorites and tektites since 1978.

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to rare tektites.