A meteorite that crashed to the ground in Somalia in 2020 brought with it at least two unique minerals that cannot be found anywhere else on our globe. University of Alberta scientists, according to a ...

University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...

A meteorite that ripped through the roof of a home in Georgia earlier this summer is older than Earth itself, according to a scientist who examined fragments of the space rock. A mysterious fireball ...

As an asteroid caught the world’s attention this week, approaching Earth on a trajectory to pass within the moon’s orbit, a senior research scientist who specializes in studying rocks from space was ...

A massive meteorite discovered in Somalia in 2020 has been hiding what researchers call a "phenomenal" discovery – two new minerals, and potentially a third, that have never before been seen on Earth.

An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families. These families were produced by three recent collisions ...

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate. The researchers tracked ...

Scattered like confetti across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, extraterrestrial time capsules containing clues to how the planets formed and the origins of life itself are waiting to be discovered ...