Unlike most meteor showers, however, there is a very narrow window for viewing the Arietids — about 45 to 60 minutes before ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

Scientists studying the meteorite Northwest Africa 12774 have found evidence that it originated from a vanished moon-sized ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a ...

The auction offers buying opportunities to collectors and institutions alike. Items range from 30-plus lots of Abraham ...

When the Solar System formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young Sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometre-sized chunks known as ...

Sound of meteorite hitting Earth recorded for first time ever A couple captured the sound of a meteorite hitting Earth for first time ever - on their home security camera. Laura Kelly and partner Joe ...

The IBeA group of the EHU-University of the Basque Country is proposing new measures to safeguard the purity of extraterrestrial samples. Several contaminants, including traces of ink, originating in ...

For Houstonians who saw it, the fireball meteor that streaked across the East Texas sky last month was a brief, blazing moment of awe. For space researchers at Rice University, it was an opportunity.

It's not every day a space rock explodes over Houston in broad daylight. It's even rarer when scientists can walk outside days later and pick up pieces of it. That's exactly what happened after a ...

Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his table. He’d ...

Recent meteors over Ohio and Michigan have sparked interest in meteorite hunting. A Michigan man found a rare meteorite in Ohio from the St. Patrick's Day meteor event. Meteorite values can range from ...