Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

New simulations suggest that various meteorite families may have formed in the same ancient ring near Jupiter.

A sonic boom shook Boston and the larger New England area with the force of 230 tons of TNT. The source came from outer space ...

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

A surprising discovery showed that the sonic boom off the coast of Massachusetts has triggered a viral sensation online. A ...

As Earth warms, about 5,000 meteorites could disappear from the surface of melting ice sheets every year, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. To date, more ...

By melting down ingredients to recreate how ancient space rocks formed, researchers have discovered more about the building ...

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...