"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough". A meteorite that survived atmospheric entry and smashed through the roof of a ...

The specimens in the Science History Institute's latest exhibit are spiky, striking and, in some cases, fluorescent. A few are toxic, and at least one is otherworldly. All of them are on permanent ...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash ...

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (WHSV) - 33 years ago on Oct. 9, 1992, a meteorite crashed in to a car in Peekskill, New York. 18-year-old ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A piece of space rock that crashed into a home in Atlanta, Georgia, had been zooming around in space for longer than Earth has existed, a recent analysis has found. The newly named McDonough Meteorite ...

When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Geochemical Perspective Letters hopes to ...

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 ...

This summer, something surprising took place in a quiet Georgia neighborhood. A bright fireball suddenly streaked across the daylight sky, taking everyone by surprise. Soon after, there was a loud ...