Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

Astronomers are uncovering vast, wheel-shaped structures in the cosmos that challenge long-held ideas about how galaxies grow ...

A chunk of rock roughly the size of a city bus is about to skim past our planet, close enough for NASA’s instruments to track ...

A meteorite was spotted over northern Michigan’s sky on Sunday, according to a company that chases storms and follows the weather. The fireball was seen over Michigan at about 6 p.m., Michigan Storm ...

The researchers argue that the Maryborough meteorite is much rarer than gold. In 2015, while prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, David Hole discovered an unusually ...

Three PhD students have found a small meteorite in a remote area in WA's Goldfields. The 300-gram meteorite was discovered after five days of searching. Students from Curtin University's Desert ...

This story has been updated to correct the date of the meteorite sighting. An unconfirmed meteorite lit up the sky over Michigan Sunday evening, Dec. 7, according to the Michigan Storm Chasers, a ...

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Tucson is the epicenter of a meteorite hunt after a shower of space rocks landed north of the city Tuesday night. The event began at 7:11 p.m. with a window-rattling sonic boom, as a massive fireball ...

Space rocks hold within them the story of our solar system and our scientists are determined to unlock their secrets. Our space scientists are working on answering some very big questions. Professor ...