Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead.

A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

A NASA official says a Sunday morning meteor show was likely caused by ‘a small comet fragment’ that streaked across the skies of northern Michigan. Skywatchers called it a meteorite.

Meteor impacts are one of the few natural disasters that can arrive without warning, crossing the final kilometers of atmosphere in seconds. When scientists talk about the likeliest place on Earth for ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

Astronomers call the phenomenon a “meteor storm,” which typically delivers at least 1,000 meteors per hour, 10 times as much ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

There’s something almost otherworldly about standing in the middle of a desert at night. No city glow, no noise except maybe ...

The alien invasion subgenre of science fiction took root in Hollywood in the mid-20th century, with some of the earliest ...