Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

Scientists have found garnet in a Martian meteorite for the first time, raising new questions about what kind of geological ...

Unsplash When a piece of space rock punches through a greenhouse roof and buries itself in cultivated soil, the event sits at ...

A small meteorite discovered in northwest Africa has given scientists a rare look into one of the Moon’s most violent moments ...

Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the ...

A lunar meteorite preserves records of three ancient impacts, linking collision histories across Earth, the Moon, and Vesta.

Earth and the Moon share a violent origin story. The Moon is thought to have formed after a large planetary body struck the ...

An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have long assumed that angrites always originated in asteroids no larger than ...

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the Philippines' southern coast dramatically altered shorelines, causing significant ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod ...