Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

“This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue ... light of meteorites as they hit the Earth’s atmosphere. Many institutes and citizen ...