Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...

A rare red trail meteor zipped through Puerto Rico’s skies on Thursday evening8.This footage, captured by Frankie Lucena in ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

Traces of rare CI-type meteorites were discovered on the Moon by the Chinese robotic mission Chang’e-6, which returned to Earth with about 2 kilograms of lunar rock samples ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but its latest find is something far more alien to the local bedrock: a dark, ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...

THOUSANDS of meteorites crash land on Earth every year but the vast majority of them go unnoticed. Most either drop in remote places or burn up to little more than tiny rocks. But on extremely ...

Fireballs may be making appearances all over the U.S. sky tonight. The Southern Taurid meteor shower is peaking overnight between Nov. 4 to Nov. 5. The Taurids are active annually, starting in ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite collection we care for to understand the history of Earth and our solar ...