Meteorites carry clues that are pivotal in exploring the history of our Solar System, yet they don't all look the same after impact. Colliding with a planetary surface sends shockwaves through ...

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a piece of space itself. Maybe it's been sitting there for centuries.Or maybe ...

Antarctica harbors a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our solar system. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly ...

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the ...

Three weeks after a bolide soared across and exploded over north Georgia skies, we're now getting our first close-up look at Georgia's 29th recovered meteorite in history. Planetary Geologist R. Scott ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

Declared as garden décor, a massive object stopped at a Russian port turned out to be a rare space relic, triggering legal ...

A fragment of the Aletai meteorite was discovered by Baltic Customs officers while scanning a shipping container at the Port ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The ...

Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree of increase in ...