Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

Tucson is the epicenter of a meteorite hunt after a shower of space rocks landed north of the city Tuesday night. The event began at 7:11 p.m. with a window-rattling sonic boom, as a massive fireball ...

Sydney, Australia - Australian scientists have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could reshape understanding of the origins of life and Earth itself, according to a ...

TEMPE, Ariz. — Pieces of a small asteroid that left a fiery trail in the sky over a big chunk of Arizona earlier this month have been found by researchers, Arizona State University says. A team of ...

ST. LOUIS – If your eye was on the sky early Wednesday morning in St. Louis, chances are you caught a meteor flying across. At 5:22 a.m. a camera on the Earth Cam network located at the Malcolm Martin ...