Ann Hodges is known as the only person on record to have been stuck by a meteorite and survived. The crazy incident took ...

On a Sunday morning in St. Francis Bay, a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, a streak of bright light was ...

A small meteor about 1 meter (3 feet) in diameter burned up over Luzon Island in the Philippines, yesterday night local time.

The search for a suspected meteorite has started after a bright fireball was seen travelling over the East Midlands. The ...

Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium. Believe it or not, debris from Mars has frequently made ...

The team has already received samples from the site, and preliminary analysis reveals that at least one contains zircon, a ...

The Philippines witnessed a brilliant meteor spectacle last night. A tiny meteor had put on a brilliant show as it entered ...

The spectacular entry of a meteorite into Earth’s atmosphere over South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province on Sunday 25 August ...

Meteorites that strike Earth don’t always come from the deepest regions of our solar system—sometimes they originate from one of our closest planetary neighbors. In fact, researchers over the ...

They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history.

For Robert Towers, hunting meteorites is a "wonderful hobby" — but his strike rate is impressive, and he hopes the ancient ...