Meteorites

The fireball was spotted on Saturday night as it exploded in a flash of green light, having vaporized from intense friction with the atmosphere upon descent.

The chunk of rock was confirmed by local police to be a meteorite, having fallen from space and smashed into a home in New Jersey.

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is due to peak on May 6 as the Earth passed through the particles left behind by Halley's comet centuries ago.

Water has been found hidden within glass beads on the moon's surface, having been formed and trapped by the blazing-hot impacts of meteors.

The comet, which is due to pass near to the Earth on February 1, is now visible using the naked eye.

Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons of meteoritic material falls to earth each day, with the majority vaporized by Earth's atmosphere.

The final data report from Arecibo, which collapsed in 2020, has revealed hundreds more asteroids lurking near Earth.

The Taurid swarm crosses Earth's orbit once every few years, causing higher numbers of meteors to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

The asteroid is due to pass the Earth on November 1 at around six times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The strange, otherworldly mineral called "lonsdaleite" is stronger than regular diamonds.

On August 16, a 100-foot asteroid will fly past the Earth at a distance just larger than the Moon's orbit.

The peak of the meteor shower falls in mid-August, which unfortunately coincides with the full moon, which may make it harder to see the meteors.

Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence that Mars was once habitable.

The bright fireball spotted in northern U.S. states and Canada was potentially as big as a basketball, unlike most which are about the size of a grain of sand.

Scientists have used a powerful drone and AI to find a meteor on Earth in a technique that could help experts understand what our region of space was like billions of years ago.

Asteroid 496860 (1999 XL136) will rocket past our home world at a speed 30 times faster than a jet fighter during the first week of 2022.

Amazed eyewitnesses managed to capture footage of the fireball as it blazed through the Earth's atmosphere.

"It was really a spectacular observation. People have captured something very special here," said Glen Nagle from the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.

The explosion over Siberia, which has come to be known as the "Tunguska event," has long puzzled experts.

Throughout history, there have been various claims of people being struck and killed by meteorites.

The object "very likely" disintegrated before touching the ground, Mexican authorities said.

Researchers have unveiled a light of pollution map of the U.S., revealing areas where you can still find "pristine" skies.

The Perseids are the result of debris being released from the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle as it speeds past the Earth in its orbit around the sun.

"The formation of the moon and the origin of Earth's water are two of the fundamental open questions in cosmo-chemistry," said the lead author of a new study.

Multiple pilots reported fast-moving bright lights flying alongside their aircraft.

Several eyewitnesses in the southeastern United States reported seeing the bright object.

The space rock hails from the explosive dawn of the solar system.

Scientists were in a race against time to find the fragments.

Asteroids are small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun.

Scientists are scrabbling to find the valuable rocks before they are degraded by sea water.