An exceptionally bright meteor streaked across the Mexico City sky, ending with a loud explosion in the pre-dawn hours of ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

With funding uncertain, astronomers are struggling to contain the threat of a civilization-ending galactic visitor. There are between one and two million near-Earth objects (NEOs) -- chunks of space ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A geologic map of the asteroid belt has been developed by tracing meteorite falls to their origins. This effort, involving global networks of cameras and citizen ...