"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

Hunting for meteorites can be a high-octane race as private collectors and scientists go head-to-head, reveals a new book by ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Meteorites have long been divided into two basic categories: the "falls" and the "finds." If any part of the event leading to the landing was witnessed, either by people or their equipment, it is ...

Namibia holds the keys to cosmic history with its meteorite craters - remnants of the universe's fiery ballet that shaped our ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

Due to a legal loophole, meteorites should, by default, belong to the finder. However, several archaeologists consider the ...

And just how common is a meteorite crashing down to Earth? The frequency of meteorites making it to the Earth's surface depends on their size, according to the University of Arizona's Lunar and ...