Stumbling upon a meteorite might seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it’s not as uncommon as you might think. What’s ...
When many meteors appear to streak from the same point in the night sky, that point is known as the radiant. This year the ...
A study of fragments from a Martian meteorite shows that the common practice of using magnets to identify meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks, Katherine ...
In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.
The Geminids — among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It's one of the year's last chances to see fireballs in the sky. The shower often produces meteors with a ...
The 2025 Leonid meteor shower is active from Nov. 3 to Dec. 2, with a peak in mid-November. You can catch the show for the ...
Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a 2.9 billion year-old lunar meteorite. The meteorite, found in Africa in 2000, was examined by a group of scientists in the Earth and ...
(WJAR) — A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident’s ice cream container, university officials said. According to university officials, a meteorite ...