Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high speed, estimated at roughly 78,000 mph, the meteorite could have left a ...

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground—just waiting to be picked up. Scientists have ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the year’s most intense celestial events; stargazers can expect to see over 100 ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

The National Museum of the Philippines now has pieces of six of the seven Philippine meteorites. On August 5, the Pampanga, Paitan, and Ponggo meteorites were officially added to the National ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Houston, Beverly R Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower Simmonds, N. A. H Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower ...

Meteorites aren't very common in Florida, but there have been documented reports over the last 100-plus years, including three in this century. A fireball was reported by about 150 people from South ...