A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

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

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...

In The Meteorite ... out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Researchers have also found that meteorites come mainly from asteroids, although a rare few are fragments of the Moon or Mars ...