Meteorites

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.

"That's actually what I would expect them to find." NASA's quest for exterrestrial life may have a fungus problem.

It's going home.

"It's like a little cradle inside of the rock."

The rocks were hiding in fields of snow and ice.

The Michigan meteor exploding didn't cause an earthquake, but it did make waves.

You'll need a magnet, a metal detector and...the lid of a toilet tank.

New technology and new missions are making it more likely every day we'll finally spot life beyond Earth.

The meteorites may have come from a potentially habitable asteroid.

Metalworkers in the ancient world would hunt for iron from meteorites to create rare weapons and artefacts.

Scientists now think Europe was formed when a meteor crashed to earth millions of years ago.

Before the Iron Age, there was the Space Iron Age.

The fireball was visible across parts of the eastern U.S. and Canada.

The event was captured by amateur astronomers.