A streaking fireball lit the starkly cold Tuesday morning sky and detonated with the force of 250 tons of TNT, rattling ...

A likely meteor lit up the sky Tuesday over the Northeast. But how often do meteors actually hit the ground? (Photo: Tellus ...

If an object were to break into the Earth's atmosphere, it's likely to be one of two things: space junk or a rare meteorite.

Residents across Northeast Ohio and beyond were stunned when a massive "boom" echoed across the area on Tuesday morning.

A rare celestial event illuminated the skies over western Europe on the evening of Sunday, March 8, when a bright fireball streaked across the atmosphere before fragments of the object fell in Germany ...

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

You might expect customs agents at a major seaport to find smuggled weapons, narcotics, or stolen antiquities. You probably don’t expect them to pry open a wooden shipping crate and find a ...

On March 15, 1806, a meteorite fell from the sky near the town of Alais, France. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Known as the Alais meteorite, this was the first object from space ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...

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