"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Lonar Lake, a unique hyper-velocity meteorite impact crater in Maharashtra's Buldhana district, formed approximately 52,000 ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

"You will begin to see Lyrids after 10 p.m. local time," said Bill Cooke, who leads NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

This year, storms and cloudy weather are in the forecast for parts of the United States that could spoil the view of the ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

The 2025 Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Monday, April 21, into the morning of Tuesday, April 22, according ...

One of the oldest known meteor showers, the Lyrids, will peak in the very early hours of Tuesday, April 22, when around 18 ...