"One advantage of the shallow entry, slow velocity atmospheric path model is that by the time the meteoroid is close to ...

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio recording of a meteorite crash. It came by chance from a doorbell camera, recorded ...

What's a meteorite? Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through dusty debris trails left by comets and other space objects as they orbit the sun. The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – ...

There are many theories about how dynamics in the early solar system led to the cosmic neighbourhood we now inhabit, but ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

“And looking back on it now, we noticed, because of the video, if I had stayed on that very spot for just two minutes longer, I absolutely would have been struck and probably killed by this meteor ...

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

Hunting for meteorites can be a high-octane race as private collectors and scientists go head-to-head, reveals a new book by ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

Namibia holds the keys to cosmic history with its meteorite craters - remnants of the universe's fiery ballet that shaped our planet. This article guides you to the most significant sites (the Hoba ...

Fireballs Aotearoa, a group interested in meteorites, said a sonic boom was widely reported as the object came in overhead.