Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky? As the director of the ...

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Fragments of an ancient meteorite have exposed a stunning array of molecules that predate the formation of Earth. Inside two ...

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever looked up at a "shooting star" and wondered what you're actually seeing? The terms meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid ...

Discovered near Grootfontein more than a century ago, the enormous iron mass has remained at its original site ever since.

"theta-Scorpiids" as seen on meteorshowers.seti.org. View larger image here. In mid-July, a new meteor shower with the provisional name "theta-Scorpiids" was detected by low-light cameras of CAMS and ...

More and more fragments of the Twannberg meteorite are being found in the Bernese Jura; over 2,200 pieces are known, and the ...

Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...

In a remarkable incident, a meteorite crashed into a suburban home in Auckland, creating a significant stir. The unusual ...