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 ...

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

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 ...

Meteorites plus gamma rays could have given Earth the building blocks for life Date: December 7, 2022 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from ...

The meteorite was broken into smaller pieces for study and sale, but its original mass remains one of the most scientifically important and visually captivating pallasites ever found.

Meteor showers have always fascinated stargazers and photographers alike. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) has captured some of the most breathtaking images of these celestial events.

Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is ...

In February 2013, the sonic boom from a massive meteorite damaged buildings and injured more than a thousand people near the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. (See pictures: "Meteorite Hits Russia ...