Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big ...

“And looking back on it now, we noticed, because of the video, if I had stayed on that very spot for just two minutes longer, I absolutely would have been struck and probably killed by this meteor.” ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in ...

As a space rock slammed into the walkway in front of a Canadian couple's house, it screeched like a sheet of ice shattering. Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly, who live on Prince Edward Island, caught a ...

Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...