Scotland’s first recorded meteorite fell in North Glasgow in 1804. A monument marks the site today, while fragments are preserved at the ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the ...

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

From a flashing blue streak to falling smoke, we now know what caused strange sightings in the sky above Hawaii this week.

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come ...

December’s supermoon will become 100 percent full at 6:14 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, the third consecutive supermoon to ...

As a space reporter for The New York Times, I follow what’s happening in the stars, including eclipses, meteor showers and ...