As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery.

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...