A mysterious meteorite, discovered in Northwest Africa in 2023, is challenging what we know about the solar system’s history.

On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures ...

A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident's ice cream, university officials ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...