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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Meteorites aren't very common in Florida, but there have been documented reports over the last 100-plus years, including ...

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 ...

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 ...