Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Dust devils are usually weak and relatively harmless, though they can fling lawn furniture and umbrellas around.

Jaguars once roamed the American Southwest, but their presence faded over the years. Now, new sightings in Arizona suggest ...

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

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

Gerry Wright, a biochemist at McMaster University who led the research, says lariocidin was found in a bacteria called Paenibacillus that was “cultivated from a soil sample that we obtained here ...

This 146 gram stone is on loan to the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies from Michael Farmer (Arizona State University ... camera videos of the meteor and found that it entered the Earth ...

Bizarre, oddly shaped meteorites that crashed into a jungle in Costa Rica in 2019 were “mudballs” that travelled through space unscathed for nearly two million years, a new study has found. The ...

Bizarre, oddly shaped meteorites that crashed into a jungle in Costa Rica in 2019 were “mudballs” that travelled through space unscathed for nearly two million years, a new study has found.

A New Jersey woman who drowned her toddlers last year to eliminate "all the evil in the world" — citing "religious reasons" — was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Naomi Elkins ...

A fall of rare meteorites in Costa Rica has revealed new details about a similar space rock that fell in Australia 50 years earlier.