Stumbling upon a meteorite might seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it’s not as uncommon as you might think. What’s ...

A meteorite that crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from a meteorite that landed in Steinbach in 1724, a rare sample of silica, ...

In some cases, to learn more about our solar system, all we have to do is look at evidence found on Earth. Researchers from Japan's Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

Andrew Melville-Smith was left covered in glass when an unidentified object smashed into his windscreen — and now scientists are investigating whether it was a meteorite.