The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.

The people at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History were nice enough to give a couple members of the Chemistry in Pictures team a behind-the-scenes look at their mineral ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Some fragments plummeted into a Henry County home, leaving behind a hole in the ceiling about the size of a golf ball and a crack in a laminate floor.

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists ...

Henry County Emergency Management said a resident claimed a rock went through the roof into their home on Thursday.

Stargazers in Türkiye got great views of the Perseid meteor shower. (AP: Emrah Gurel)"The Perseid meteor shower is usually best visible from the northern hemisphere, although we could be lucky ...

A meteor streaks above a destroyed tank from the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, during the Perseid meteor shower on Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. Georg Mortiz/AP ...

Since 2011, retired computer programmer Carol Roullard has been taking photos of crystals and other objects under a microscope. The above image, which she tweeted earlier this month, is a photo of a ...