The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13-14, with the best viewing between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. under moonless ...

The Geminid meteor shower put on a dazzling cosmic firework show when it peaked overnight on Dec. 13 as shards of the solar ...

A few of the orange-colored carbonate globules found in ALH84001. This 1.6-ounce (46-gram) meteorite, a part of the Tissint meteorite that landed in Morocco in July 2011, fetched $43,750 at a public ...

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite collection we care for to understand the history of Earth and our solar ...

"We are excited to be able to confirm that the object is a true chondrite meteorite," said the chair of TCNJ's physics department. HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, New Jersey -- Experts at The College of New Jersey ...

The American Meteor Society received nearly 150 reports of a meteor flashing through the daytime sky Thursday, June 26. Most of the reports were from Georgia and South Carolina, but a few reported ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...