Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact craters, both on land and hidden beneath the oceans, are revealing that ...

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...

A meteorite has hit another house in Connecticut just 19 days after one landed on a home in Wolcott, less than a mile away. In fact, all but one of the six reported meteorite falls in Connecticut over ...

Houston, Beverly R Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower Simmonds, N. A. H Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...

The 'discreet' fragment of Aletai, weighing more than 2 tons, comes from one of the largest iron meteorites known on Earth.

The National Museum of the Philippines now has pieces of six of the seven Philippine meteorites. On August 5, the Pampanga, Paitan, and Ponggo meteorites were officially added to the National ...

This latest fall is the 29th documented meteorite in Georgia, museum officials say, and only the second documented incident of a meteorite hitting a home in the state. The first case of property ...

The vast majority of Earth's meteorites come from these three asteroid families, according to researchers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...