University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...

A meteorite that ripped through the roof of a home in Georgia earlier this summer is older than Earth itself, according to a scientist who examined fragments of the space rock. A mysterious fireball ...

On a clear June day in Georgia, a blazing fireball suddenly fell out of the sky over the Atlanta metro area. The source of this spectacle was a 1-ton meteor that exploded in mid-air, sending a cherry ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but sometimes ...

Scientists from the University of Manchester will soon be embarking on a truly remarkable adventure: To discover the ‘lost’ meteorites that have been buried inside Antarctica’s ice for millions of ...

The Yale Peabody Museum is now home to one of the oldest and most valuable scientifically significant meteorite collection. Their second donation — this trove from the Planetary Studies Foundation ...

Asteroids offer valuable windows into the early solar system, given that they are remnants of planetary embryos that failed to form into planets. A recent analysis of samples from Ryugu offered ...

Analysis of samples from asteroid Bennu has revealed objects resembling chondrules, though not identical to those found in meteorites, suggesting greater asteroid diversity than previously understood.