About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

Chang'e 6 made history in 2024, by bringing back 1,935.3 grams of lunar samples from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Feb. 6, 2017, a meteor -- believed to be as big as a small car -- streaked across the sky above Wisconsin. The atmosphere smashed it into thousands of little pieces, which fell in ...

SHARJAH, 11th October, 2025 (WAM) -- The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah has hosted a research seminar titled “In Search of ...

Meteorites - the rocks that hurtle from outer space and make it to Earth, get a moment to shine when collectors gather in Cincinnati to show off the treasures they have found this Saturday.

Stowaways in a small car-sized asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan in 2008 have revealed what happened to a mysterious dwarf planet that is dusting Earth with a rare type of meteorites. That dwarf ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...

In a rare glimpse into the earliest days of our planet, scientists have discovered remnants of the “proto Earth.” ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...