Meteor

Space Meteorite discovery solves the mystery of Earth’s lost elements

Meteorites offer rare clues to our solar system’s earliest days. Since they broke off from ancient planetesimals, they preserve vital chemical traces.

Space The Sun’s secret role in shaping comet paths and meteor showers

Space The Sun destroys space rocks before they hit the Earth

Space Why the most valuable meteorites rarely make it to Earth

Space Meteor strike may have sparked an explosion of life in the early Earth

Space Where do meteorites of different types come from?

Space What if a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

Global Good Did life on Earth come from outer space? Study provides new insights

Discoveries Scientists finally identify the source of interstellar signal linked to aliens

Discoveries First ever ‘alien’ objects found on Earth, according to Harvard professor

Discoveries Chasing Shadows and Shooting Stars: An Astro-Tourism Adventure

Discoveries A really weird asteroid has just gotten a little weirder

Discoveries Researchers solve the mystery of why Mars has no liquid water on its surface

Discoveries What a Martian meteorite can teach us about Earth’s origins

Discoveries Extraterrestrial stone brings first tangible evidence of a supernova to Earth

Discoveries Was the biblical city of Sodom actually destroyed by an exploding meteor?

Discoveries Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids?