A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

Meteorites carry clues that are pivotal in exploring the history of our Solar System, yet they don’t all look the same after impact. Colliding with a planetary surface sends shockwaves through ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

The team also determined that, overall, the meteorite was a hefty 60 cm (23.6 in) in diameter when it hit our atmosphere, a long way from its origins in the asteroid belt.

A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed onto his front porch in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. The meteorite, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite ...

A Canadian homeowner's doorbell camera video of a meteorite crashing down to Earth right outside his front door could be the first time the phenomenon has been recorded, complete with audio of the ...

Curious about the dust the homeowners checked the video footage from their security camera and saw an astounding moment - a rock that appeared to be a meteorite falling from space and crash ...

But *** neighbor heard *** crash and questioned, was this *** meteorite? The homeowners wondered too when they saw their camera and sent photos to *** meteorite expert at the University of Alberta ...

There are close calls, and then there are cosmically close calls. Just ask this Canadian man who was innocently chilling outside his home's front door, when — moments after moving away to walk ...

“Analysis confirmed the samples to be from an ordinary chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes this planet,” CBC News reported. “Herd said the meteorites typically enter ...

One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University ...