Sought after by collectors and scientists alike for their rarity, meteorites hold a key to revealing the unimaginably distant past of the Solar System ...

The IBeA group of the EHU-University of the Basque Country is proposing new measures to safeguard the purity of extraterrestrial samples. Several contaminants, including traces of ink, originating in ...

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of the impacts are so large you can see them with the naked eye from thousands of kilometers away. NASA's control room recorded the team's ...

For Houstonians who saw it, the fireball meteor that streaked across the East Texas sky last month was a brief, blazing moment of awe. For space researchers at Rice University, it was an opportunity.

It's not every day a space rock explodes over Houston in broad daylight. It's even rarer when scientists can walk outside days later and pick up pieces of it. That's exactly what happened after a ...

Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his table. He’d ...

The night sky across Houston briefly flashed Saturday night, followed by a sonic boom. It was caused by a meteor, which have become a surprisingly common occurrence recently — with one landing in Ohio ...

A large meteor fell toward Earth over the weekend, exploding with a visible flash and fragmenting into smaller chunks across Houston, Texas. Local residents first spotted a bright fireball around 5:40 ...

Meteorites may have fallen across a more than 12-mile range in north Houston Saturday, according to a new NASA map. Meteorites of varying sizes could have landed along a "strewn field" extending from ...

After a meteor streaked across the Houston skies Saturday, locals are already on the hunt for fallen fragments. "Who's ready for a space scavenger hunt?" KPRC2 Meteorologist Justin Stapleton posted to ...

After a seven-ton fireball exploded above the Cleveland area, a group of meteorite hunters descended too, in the name of science — and possibly cash. After a seven-ton fireball exploded above the ...

MEDINA, Ohio — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling ...