A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

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

THOUSANDS of meteorites crash land on Earth every year but the vast majority of them go unnoticed. Most either drop in remote places or burn up to little more than tiny rocks. But on extremely ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

A bidder here on Earth shelled out a lot of green for a piece of the red planet on Wednesday when Sotheby's put a Martian meteorite up for auction. NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists are on the hunt for the origin story of a meteorite that smashed through the roof into ...

Ruth Hamilton woke up to find a hole in her ceiling, debris on her face and a 2.8-pound meteorite between her pillows One woman got the surprise — and scare — of a lifetime when she woke up to find a ...

"I was wanting a new bicycle, and I'd got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that," David said. He bought a ...