This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about 466 million years ago, at the beginning of a period when Earth was regularly hit by meteorites, according to a new paper in the journal ...

Clarke, Roy S. Plotkin, Howard and McCoy, Timothy J. 2006. Meteorites and the Smithsonian Institution. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Vol. 256 ...

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - You may have seen a fireball travel across the sky Thursday night. It was a meteor that traveled over northern Kentucky, close to Cincinnati. The video above shows the view from ...

Meteorites that strike Earth don’t always come from the deepest regions of our solar system—sometimes they originate from one of our closest planetary neighbors. In fact, researchers over the ...

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Fireball seen Thursday night on Cincinnati's west side According to Wes Ryle, an astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory, the meteor flashed in the sky for just a few seconds, but was distinctly ...

Robert Towers has made the biggest contribution ever to the South Australian museum's meteor collection, and he has his own unique way of celebrating his finds ...

AND THERE WAS SOME QUESTION AS TO WHAT THIS WAS INITIALLY LIKE. SOME THOUGHT IT WAS A CONTRAIL, BUT NASA METEOR WATCH ACTUALLY CHIMED IN AND SAID NO, THIS WAS A FIREBALL METEOR. THEY CAUGHT IT ON ...

An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the sun. In a paper published in the journal Icarus ...

The "space junk" that fell over the Eastern Cape on Sunday morning was a meteorite. Scientists from Wits University and NMMU have closely monitored the event, including media and online reports of ...

It’s not every day that you get to see a meteorite whizzing through the sky in a fiery ball which can be a spectacular display. However, Zoë van der Merwe and her friends MC Ferreira and ...

Social media was abuzz on Sunday as internet users wanted to know whether they just saw a meteorite. Residents from Jeffreys Bay, Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape, and residents in George and other ...