We think of impact events as being disastrous for life,” Harvard geologist Nadja Drabon explains, but one such impact by a ...

A fireball dubbed the Mother's Day Meteorite has been found in a salt lake in Western Australia by a country police officer ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

The National Weather Service Lubbock captured a meteorite on its rooftop camera Wednesday morning about 3:46 AM.

New evidence shows a meteorite struck Scotland 990 million years ago, reshaping Earth's timeline and possibly helping early life reach land ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much brighter object that explodes when it penetrates the atmosphere but doesn't ...

Gem-quality peridot has been identified in multiple pallasite meteorites, earning it the title of a “gemstone from another ...

An ancient meteorite strike hit what is now Scotland significantly later than previously thought, scientists say. The finding ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact in Western Australia and now the 1-billion-year-old Stac Fada deposit in ...