A bright green fireball lit up the skies over Wellington, New Zealand, on Friday night. Scientists say it was likely a bolide ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

Ariana Church, 9, was on Penarth beach in Wales with her family when she spotted a mysterious rock - which turned out to be a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Ariana Church made the extraordinary find with her seven-year-old sister, Leyla, mother Hayley, 39, and grandmother Marion, ...

Lonar Lake, the 50,000-year-old meteorite-impact crater in Buldhana district, has long drawn scientists and tourists for its ...

Earthquakes can be damaging enough, but sometimes what follows can be worse. Dan Smith takes us through one of Earth's most ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...