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

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

Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after identifying a meteorite that crashed through a car window and into a carton of ice cream in Pennsylvania nearly two years ago.

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

These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...

Researchers uncover the oldest asteroid crater in Australia, revealing its role in shaping Earth’s ancient climate.

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This word has cosmological connotations associated with the Egyptian belief that the sky was an iron pot or tub filled with water, and bits of it fell to the Earth in the form of meteorites.

Ann Hodges was taking a nap on her sofa in November 1954 in her home near Sylacauga when a grapefruit-sized rock came through the ceiling.

A set of ancient artifacts, dating back over 2,700 years, has been found to include iron forged from meteorites– an extraordinary find that is rewriting what we know about early metalworking.

A dull bracelet and a rusted hollow hemisphere decorated with gold are forged, researchers have found, not out of metal from beneath the ground, but with iron from meteorites that fell from the sky.

It was discovered as a flaming rock that fell behind the Santa Monica church and was reported to smell like gunpowder, which prompted the Gobernador-General to send the meteorite overseas. The second ...