Others, such as the Ivuna meteorite, consist almost entirely of fine-grained, crumbly material. The capsule shown here is only about one centimeter long and contains a few grains of this very rare ...

Unsplash When a piece of space rock punches through a greenhouse roof and buries itself in cultivated soil, the event sits at ...

During the filming of a NOVA documentary “Meteor Strike” two weeks after the Chelyabinsk airburst, Mark Boslough notices the Tsarev Meteorite, which fell in Russia on Dec. 6, 1922, on the floor of a ...

Ancient Martian landscapes, glowing auroras, and stellar nurseries come together in this week’s PPOD collection, highlighting ...

Divers working at Lake Chebarkul have recovered a half-ton piece of the meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. The fly-over, a viral, online sensation at the time (the YouTube ...

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that ...

A meteorite has crashed through the roof of a house after thousands observed a stunning fireball streak across the sky in western Europe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Profile Books Ltd; 2025; 288 pp. In The Meteorites — Encounters with Outer Space & Deep Time, Helen Gordon tells the stories of selected meteorites; however, this is a book about meteorites without ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus ...