How and where are rocks tested to see if they're meteorites? Can a member of the public get one tested? Kenneth ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

SPRING, Texas — A rare space event that sent debris from the solar system into the Houston area is now drawing curious residents eager to find out if they’ve discovered a piece of it. About a week ...

A Massachusetts couple suspects their home was hit by a meteorite. Late last week, Jim Dolan was sitting upstairs reading in his Gloucester townhouse when he heard something slam into the side of it.

MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a ...

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was ...

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...