WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, residents along the Northeast looked up to see a fiery trail across the sky, likely a meteor flashing through the Earth's atmosphere. It's unclear whether the fireball seen ...

Why are craters perfectly round even though meteorites are irregularly shaped? Steven RiserConyers, Georgia To answer your question, let's have some fun. First, watch as I throw this irregularly ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

Meteorite Spotted Over Europe Breaks Apart, Fragment Crashes Through Roof in Germany ...

A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashes through the roof of a house in Georgia, revealing clues about the origin of the Solar System.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...