Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a solid surface. A 4.5 Billion-Year-Old fragment of cosmic debris recovered in ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a strange-looking rock on Mars that didn't belong there. It ran some scans, and the data revealed that it didn't come from the Red Planet but some other far-off point ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

An iron dagger discovered within Tutankhamun's tomb was identified as originating from an iron meteorite. In 2016, Italian researchers confirmed the dagger's cosmic source by analyzing its elemental ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...

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 ...

A Massachusetts couple suspects their home was hit by a meteorite. Late last week, Jim Dolan was sitting upstairs reading in his Gloucester townhouse when he heard something slam into the side of it.