The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful, our planetary defense really is. The impact itself was harmless, but the ...

More than 50,000 meteorites have been found on Earth, scientists say, but only one has been documented to have hit a person. On June 26, when people across several states in the South reported seeing ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many meteorites are made of crystalline materials, formed under exotic conditions ...

Tentacles emerging from a mysterious rock—a bizarre discovery in Panama has left social media buzzing with wild speculation. A man known only as Kin claims to have found a strange organism growing ...