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

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

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...

This leaves free rein to meteorite hunters who use metal detectors to locate and recover celestial iron. In the fall of 2023, metal detectorist Filip Nikodem, equipped with a search permit, discovered ...

Today, most of the meteorite is on display at the California State Minerals and Mining Museum in Mariposa, writes.

Asteroids like Bennu are rocky or metallic objects in orbit around the Sun. Meteorites are the pieces of asteroids and other natural extraterrestrial objects that survive the fiery plunge to the Earth ...

Barbie Hsu, the Taiwanese actress better known as "Big S," has died after contracting pneumonia during a trip to Japan. She ...

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

Then, those blasted-off pieces coalesced, like a pile of rocky rubble that is ... “These organic molecules have all been ...