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

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed that the asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life, including sugar and ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

Morocco has reported most finds in the last 20 years, and about half of all scientific publications involving meteorites are ...

The Geminid meteor shower has begun. The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour ...

Radiation levels at airline flight altitudes briefly reached levels that could be potentially harmful to pregnant women.

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

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

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

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...