When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

On Dec. 27, 1984, a Mars meteorite was found in Antarctica. The meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001, was found in Allan ...

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

In April 2019, a fiery streak lit up the sky over northern Costa Rica. It wasn’t lightning or fireworks. It was a rock from space, plunging into Earth’s atmosphere at over 14 kilometers per second.

A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful ...

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...

Chunks of rock fall from space all the time, some of them big enough to do a fair amount of damage. Most of the time, however, nobody’s the wiser: the vast majority of Earth’s surface is ocean, desert ...

"I was wanting a new bicycle, and I'd got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that," David said. He bought a ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground—just waiting to be picked up. Scientists have ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower is active from Dec. 26 to Jan. 16, 2026, and will peak Jan. 3-4, 2026, though viewing will be ...

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