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 meteorite crashed into a home in the western city of Koblenz after streaking across the sky. The bright object was seen in ...

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

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

That’s going to leave a dent.

The fireball from space was spotted by a network of sky-watching cameras in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany.

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

Measuring approximately one and a half inches in length, the arrowhead is believed to be composed of meteoritic iron that originated in Estonia. (Creative Commons image via Journal of Archaeological ...

Numerous people were able to observe a meteorite crash on Sunday evening. A fragment of the object damaged the roof of a ...

The Widmanstätten pattern also hints at how the meteorite was processed by the ancient Egyptians. The cross-hatched texture, ...

The Los Angeles Meteorite has an interesting history. Most meteorites have more specific information about the location they were found, but not this one. Bob Verish found two stones in the Mojave ...