NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

A second development project at Willamette Falls is gearing up, thanks to a massive infusion of public and private money. Led by former Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, the Willamette Falls Trust has secured ...

Heather Handley works for Museums Victoria Research Institute. She is affiliated with Monash University. Dermot Henry receives funding from Australian Research Council. Oskar Lindenmayer is affiliated ...

Pathfinder shuttle stack outside of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. More than six decades ago, the United States launched its first satellite into Earth orbit, turning the dream of spaceflight into ...

More than six decades ago, the United States launched its first satellite into Earth orbit, turning the dream of spaceflight into reality. Space tourism may be inching closer, but until off-planet ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...

At 10:58 AM on Sept. 28, 1969, residents of the small farming community of Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, heard a series of loud booms. The noise was accompanied by a strong smell and a streak of ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...