The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

Although last year’s inclement weather resulted in fewer Antarctic meteorite recoveries than usual, scientists have recently discovered that one of the specimens is a rare breed — a type of lunar ...

Meteorite hunter Robert Ward has donated a piece of one of the rarest meteorites ever found to the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to possibly help answer questions regarding the earliest forms of ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the universe was a chaos of collapsing gas and spinning debris. Small particles of gas and dust clumped together into larger and more massive meteoroids that in turn ...

The cosmos is a vast and fascinating expanse, filled with curiosities. Meteorites, remnants of this cosmic expanse, hurtle ...

Fragments of an asteroid that exploded over Germany on Jan. 21 and were recovered five days later have been confirmed to be a rare space rock type that could help shed light on Earth's origins. As ...

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 ...