For decades, a heavy rock had a simple job on a Michigan farm: keeping a barn door open. Its real story was far more ...

Studying 75 meteorites falling to Earth, scientists have identified the seven stages a space rock goes through as it crashes through our atmosphere.

Before our planet had oceans, air, or even a solid surface, the raw ingredients ...

Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity's great unanswered questions. One way to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image overlays over 100 fireball images recorded between 2016 and 2020. The streaks are fireballs; the dots are star ...

What can the chemistry of a microscopic feature reveal about the history of a rock, or the origins of planetary materials?

Wow. That's old. Allan Appel writes about time and space and so much more, in his review of the Peabody Museum's new special ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the moon and Mars. This is probably a result of ...

The Aguas Zarcas mudball meteorites fell in Aguas Zarcas, Costa Rica, on April 23, 2019. For scientists, it was one of the largest meteorite hauls of its kind. Lead author and astronomer Peter ...