Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, spawning upwards of 120 meteors per hour. These meteors come from the 2003 EH asteroid as the Earth drifts through its tail. When ...

Over 1,500 meteorites and celestial objects are housed in UCLA’s Meteorite Museum, the largest meteorite collection on the West Coast. One of UCLA’s meteorites was recently listed on eBay ...

Part of a giant meteorite from outer space has been safely recovered from a Russian lake, online news website RIA Novosti ...

This extraterrestrial piece is part of an ancient pallasite meteorite. It is a slice from one of the world's largest specimens of its kind. It's thought to have been part of a much larger meteor that ...

TASS/. The Geminids, the year’s biggest meteor shower, which peaks Friday night into Saturday morning, can be viewed even in the light of major cities, Nikolay Zheleznov, a senior researcher at ...

Part of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, recovered from Lake Chebarkul. The largest known meteorite is the Hoba meteorite which fell in Namibia in 1920 and is etimated to weigh around 60 tonnes (60,000kg).