Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

When many meteors appear to streak from the same point in the night sky, that point is known as the radiant. This year the ...

The Leonids meteor shower could be visible in a break between weather systems Tuesday night in Western Washington. But beware ...

The Leonid meteor shower, which is active from Nov. 6 to Nov. 30, is to peak from the night of Nov. 16 to Nov. 17, according ...