As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones ...

You can explore 4.5 billion years of our solar system's history at Arizona State University's Meteorite Gallery in Tempe. The ...

See for yourself at Arizona State University's Meteorite Gallery, which offers close encounters with these emissaries from across our solar system. Located on the second floor of the ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

A meteorite is a piece of rock that originated in space, then survived the fall through the Earth’s atmosphere to end up on the surface of our planet. We estimate that nearly 5000 rocks ...

He devised the cosmic-ray method of dating meteorites and was among the first to study the origin and evolution of the Martian moons.

Years after unearthing an unusual rock, David Hole found with the help of experts at the Melbourne Museum that a rock he found was a rare 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite. While searching for gold ...