On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in jewellery since the Bronze Age and valued ...

A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, ...

An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, ...

Unsplash When a piece of space rock punches through a greenhouse roof and buries itself in cultivated soil, the event sits at ...

A mysterious extraterrestrial visitor now has a permanent home and identity, thanks to University of Georgia researchers. The newly named McDonough Meteorite crash-landed in Atlanta on June 26 after ...

A meteorite found in the Sahara Desert is giving scientists a rare look at a world that may no longer exist. By studying the ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

A 35-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a weekend crash with another vehicle in Birmingham. The Jefferson County Coroner’s ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source – ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. Scientists are assessing the makeup of carbon-rich asteroids ...

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.