A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.

Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...

The remnants of a meteor that lit up British skies on Thursday may have landed on Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain. The ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

No, it was a meteorite. For a few brief moments today, a bright fireball lit up the midnight skies above Scotland. The meteor ...

Published: June 25, 2025 8:09am EDT Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have that come from the Moon and Mars.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...