A meteorite that rattled New England homes and caused an explosive “double boom” plunged into the middle of Cape Cod Bay, ...

Southwest Research Institute, or SwRI, is studying impact flashes generated by high-speed collisions. One application of understanding impact flashes is to remotely identify what materials are ...

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Geochemist Liam Peterson with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution walks us through the recent fireball event over Cape ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod ...

The Solar System is filled with large bodies, between planets, dwarf planets, and large moons. The count goes from dozens to ...

The rock, Clinton said, “speaks to us across … billions of years and millions of miles. It speaks of the possibility of life.

Learn more about the meteor that caused a mysterious double boom across parts of New England, with reports stretching from ...

Scientists found life can be detected by how molecules are arranged, improving the chances of finding life on moons like ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified 21 carbon-containing molecules in a single Martian rock sample, seven of which had ...