On March 15, 1806, a meteorite fell from the sky near the town of Alais, France. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashes through the roof of a house in Georgia, revealing clues about the origin of the Solar System.

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Experts say that a fragment of the meteorite has been recovered. It is composed of chondrite, formed by small spherical mineral structures called chondrules, which originated in the early solar system ...

Learn more about Ann Hodges, the first and perhaps only person known to have been struck by a meteorite.