Meteor impacts are one of the few natural disasters that can arrive without warning, crossing the final kilometers of ...

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The meteor was seen by several witnesses when it landed in late June. Several witnesses were in shock earlier this summer when a meteorite landed in Georgia. The space rock exploded over Georgia, ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

Something mysterious happened nearly half a billion years ago that triggered one of the most important changes in the history of life on Earth. Suddenly, there was an explosion of species, with the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...

WASHINGTON — The Orionid meteor shower will put on a cosmic show in the night sky this week, giving stargazers a chance to see up to 20 meteors per hour. The Orionids will peak on Tuesday, Oct. 21, ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...