When Dr. Amanda Stadermann loads a meteorite sample into the Department of Earth and Environmental Science’s new scanning ...

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky? As the director of the ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

A meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds (1 kilogram) that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home two years ago could shed light on ancient water in the solar system. Observers across New York, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home is now considered one of the most scientifically valuable meteorites ever ...

Meteorites may have fallen across a more than 12-mile range in north Houston Saturday, according to a new NASA map. Meteorites of varying sizes could have landed along a "strewn field" extending from ...

A rare CO chondrite meteorite was the probable impacter that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out 75% of Earth's species, including nonavian dinosaurs. These findings are published in Science ...

NASA has released a "strewn field" map of where meteorites may have fallen after a rare daytime fireball explosively disintegrated in the skies over Houston on Saturday (March 21) evening — with the ...