From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their ...

The Southern Delta Aquariids are a meteor shower typically active for a few weeks starting from mid-July. The shower travels ...

Astronomers have found key organic molecules in a young star’s disk, V883 Orionis, suggesting that the origin of life in deep ...

The Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids are due to peak at the same time and may add up to something magical ...

Two meteor showers —the Alpha Capricornids and Southern Delta Aquariids — reach their peaks this week. Here’s how to observe these celestial events.

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on the ...

Sotheby's sold a meteorite from Mars for US$5.3 million last Wednesday to an undisclosed buyer. Sotheby's claims is the ...

The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million.

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through space before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into a home ...

With dimensions of roughly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches, NWA 16788 is said to be 70 per cent larger than the ...

This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did ...