A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Geology proposes that the same asteroid strike that carved Arizona’s Meteor ...
Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, ...
There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.
Learn more about Ann Hodges, the first and perhaps only person known to have been struck by a meteorite.
Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite inside her Alabama home in 1954. She's pictured with attorney Hugh Love (left) and the director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, Walter B. Jones.Courtesy ...
A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashes through the roof of a house in Georgia, revealing clues about the origin of the Solar System.
Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.
The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...
John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...
Witnesses across Europe saw a blazing fireball before a meteorite smashed through the roof of a house in Germany.
A German town has been peppered by meteorites after a stunning "fireball" exploded in the skies over central Europe. One extraterrestrial fragment landed in a bedroom after punching a soccer ball-size ...