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 ...

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

How and where are rocks tested to see if they're meteorites? Can a member of the public get one tested? Kenneth ...

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...

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

A man from the United States unknowingly used a meteorite as a doorstop for three decades, believing it to be just a rock. This 10-kilogram piece, found in Michigan, was recently identified as a ...

Scientists claim to have detected a bizarre collection of organic molecules in ancient Martian rocks, including compounds ...

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