The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...

A meteoroid is a piece of rock that’s broken off an asteroid or comet in outer space. But once it enters the Earth’s ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

More than 200 sightings were sent to the American Meteor Society, and a Georgia resident reported a rock falling through a ...

No, it was a meteorite. For a few brief moments today, a bright fireball lit up the midnight skies above Scotland. The meteor ...

A fireball flashed across the Southeast sky Thursday, with booms and shaking reported in Georgia. NWS meteorologists say ...

Richard Jakiel fell in love with outer space as a kid, and his enthusiasm never waned. Now 67, the Lithia Springs man, who has taught astronomy in Cobb County high schools and at universities, plans ...

No injuries or damages have been reported. What's the difference between meteoroids, meteors and meteorites? Meteoroids: An asteroid is a small, rocky celestial body that orbits the sun. A meteoroid ...

The key was laborious work tracing the paths of meteoroids backward across the solar system, and simulating the orbital evolution of asteroid fragments. Through this work, it was found that the ...

After a suspected meteor fell in metro Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, people in the area are hoping to find a fragment on the ...