The American Meteor Society received several reports of a daytime fireball over New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. Footage of the fireball was ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.

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The night sky this week brings a first peek at the Lyrids Meteor Shower before its actual peak, plus planets including Venus, ...

Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

It has long been suspected that carbonaceous materials are too weak to survive the fiery plunge through the atmosphere. But ...

As the spring weather warms up, the 2025 meteor shower season will be ramping up, with two major meteor showers on tap for ...