A new time lapse from the International Space Station captures a meteor streaking into the atmosphere and vaporizing above ...

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

If you've ever yearned to own something from out of this world, here's your chance. On Oct. 14 in Manhattan, fragments of Mars, the moon and asteroids that have fallen to Earth go up for sale, in what ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

In April 2019, a fiery streak lit up the sky over northern Costa Rica. It wasn’t lightning or fireworks. It was a rock from space, plunging into Earth’s atmosphere at over 14 kilometers per second.

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." When you purchase ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...