Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

Femtosecond laser ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (fs-LI-TOFMS) is introduced for the three-dimensional elemental analysis of a Nantan meteorite. Spatially resolved multielemental imaging ...

A fireball meteor may have crashed into a Georgia home after lighting up skies and shaking buildings across the Southeast, ...

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

A bright fireball streaked across the daytime sky, astonishing onlookers and generating a sonic boom that rattled homes from ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

As of 2022, 27 meteorites have landed in the Peach State, according to Karisa Zdanky, astromy program manager at Tellus ...

A fireball flashed across the sky on Thursday afternoon in a spectacle that was visible to residents in several states, ...

A fireball flashed across the Southeast sky Thursday, with booms and shaking reported in Georgia. NWS meteorologists say ...

Meteor Shower Colors The bright turquoise color indicates it was a metallic space rock, probably with magnesium, iron and nickel, the SAC said. What a meteor is made out of is not the only factor that ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests ...

Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...