A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

Many Southern Hemisphere observers consider this shower to be the best meteor shower of the year, but it's a different story ...

S tep into the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Meteorites and you’ll be faced with a monster. It goes by the ...

N o, you didn't miss your chance to see a Florida-based rocket launch in New York. It's been rescheduled. After weather delayed Amazon's Project Kuiper rocket launch on April 9, t ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Scientists from the University of Oxford analyzed a rare type of meteorite known as an enstatite chondrite. The space rock dates to around 4.6 billion years ago and is believed to be similar in ...

The ones that survive this fiery descent are known as meteorites. For scientists, meteorites are more than space debris. They're time capsules, preserving clues about the early Solar System.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A bright object, initially appearing to be a meteorite, lit up the skies over Mexico’s capital around 3 a.m. Wednesday, stretching over plains, volcanoes and small towns.

That is the take-home message of two adventurous books about the people who hunt for, collect, research and trade in meteorites. In The Meteorite Hunters, journalist Joshua Howgego takes a broad ...

Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less than 5 per cent of meteorites found on Earth. An international team of scientists from Curtin University’s School of Earth and ...

More rain is on the way for Far North Queensland, with a break in the weather unlikely until the middle of the week, sparking concerns for a Cape York township. It comes as reports of heavy ...