In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold ...

"Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, ...

Fortunately, those rings – thought to be remnants of space rocks like asteroids and comets – will soon reappear to ground observers here on Earth. Here's what to know about when and why Saturn ...

The unearthly rock then gathered dust for four years until he took it to be checked at the Melbourne Museum in 2019. Experts said only a handful of space rocks of this size have fallen in the ...

The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday, ...

Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007 ...

An asteroid that fell to Earth in 2022 and exploded in a stunning green fireball above Canada was the smallest space rock ever properly measured, a new study suggests. The diminutive asteroid ...

It's not even the first meteorite to take a few years to make it to a museum. In a particularly amazing story ScienceAlert covered in 2018, one space rock took 80 years, two owners, and a stint as a ...