This is a good year for observing the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Its peak should come on Tuesday morning, April 22, when ...

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

Among meteorites, one type – called carbonaceous ... Scientists’ desire to study these ancient rocks has driven recent sample-return space missions. NASA’s OSIRIS‑REx and JAXA’s ...