"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." ...

The Murchison meteorite. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) It has even been possible to calculate how long ago that was. Exposure to cosmic rays alters the composition of a meteoroid, so the ...

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through space relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our planet.

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Water is one of the biggest factors behind life on Earth. Researchers are always looking for answers to how water formed on ...

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

Lonar Lake, a unique hyper-velocity meteorite impact crater in Maharashtra's Buldhana district, formed approximately 52,000 ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...