This comes after Nicola Fox of NASA's science mission directorate said: "Psyche is by far the largest [asteroid], and that's ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

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

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

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...

A Kobe University study has finally solved this decades-old puzzle. Researchers found that when meteorites are hit, organic ...

Astronomers perplexed by loud bang and green flash over Australian skies - Astronomers are sceptical that the bright fireball ...

As the Lyrid meteor shower lights up the sky tonight, it’s the perfect moment to pair nature’s oldest light show with some ...

Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis. Known as 'the people's pope', he worked to make the church ...

Local experts have confirmed the originality of a 200-gram meteorite found by farmers around Mobarakeh city, Isfahan province ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...