Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact craters, both on land and hidden beneath the oceans, are revealing that ...

On Jan. 16 around 8:10 p.m. local time, a brilliant, green fireball sliced across the skies of southern Michigan near Ann Arbor. Many eyewitnesses said it looked as bright as a full moon. The American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorite From Algeria Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their ...

A meteorite has hit another house in Connecticut just 19 days after one landed on a home in Wolcott, less than a mile away. In fact, all but one of the six reported meteorite falls in Connecticut over ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...

Houston, Beverly R Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower Simmonds, N. A. H Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower ...

A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

Most of the meteorites that land on Earth today can be traced back to just three recent collisions out in the asteroid belt, according to a pair of recent studies. It’s hard to trace meteorites back ...

The 'discreet' fragment of Aletai, weighing more than 2 tons, comes from one of the largest iron meteorites known on Earth.