A streaking fireball lit the starkly cold Tuesday morning sky and detonated with the force of 250 tons of TNT, rattling ...

A rare celestial event illuminated the skies over western Europe on the evening of Sunday, March 8, when a bright fireball streaked across the atmosphere before fragments of the object fell in Germany ...

Meteorite found in Finland reveals unprecedented phosphorus levels, one of the rarest in the solar system today ...

The data was collected by Unclaimed Baggage, the country's only merchant of unclaimed and lost airline luggage ...

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

If an object were to break into the Earth's atmosphere, it's likely to be one of two things: space junk or a rare meteorite.

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

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On March 15, 1806, a meteorite fell from the sky near the town of Alais, France. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Known as the Alais meteorite, this was the first object from space ...

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