If you manage to win the rock lottery and find a meteorite, you should avoid touching it with your bare hands, and there's a ...

Ballpoint pen ink found in Martian meteorites reveals hidden flaws and casts doubt on studies of the planet’s chemical ...

Scientists have detected several sugars in the primitive Orgueil meteorite. Fallen near the eponymous village in 1864, this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WJW) — A streaking fireball lit the stark, cold Tuesday morning sky and detonated with the force of 250 tons of TNT, rattling ...

Nearly one week after an eight-ton six-foot diameter meteor broke apart over Lake Erie, showering smaller meteorites over ...

Home video and audio of a meteorite crashing into the sidewalk outside a Canadian man’s home is believed to be the only recording of its kind. “As far as I know, and I’ve asked around, it’s probably ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Patrick AVENTURIER/Gamma-Rapho/Getty The largest rock from Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction at Sotheby’s on July ...

When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...

A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for a ...