"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones ...

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

It’s said that if you catch one in the night sky the universe might grant you a wish. On any given night, shooting stars are ...

If you're hoping to spot some celestial activity this spring in Texas, two meteor showers will soon give you the chance.

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Look up and be dumbstruck with wonder: the Lyrid meteor shower will grace the skies this month. Records of this celestial ...

Our readers sent us this video of what appears to be a meteor falling from the sky near Tyne Crescent on April 9.

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." The pieces of a ...

The Lyrids are the product of a comet called C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) that has a roughly 422-year orbit around the Sun; their radiant point, or place in the sky from which they seem to fall, is close to ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...