Researchers think they've solved the long-standing mystery of how Mars got all of its clouds. more

Where there's meteoric smoke, there's cloud cover. more

Cotton candy clouds in the Martian middle atmosphere may owe their life to dying meteors. more

Meteoric smoke could be the secret to the wispy wonders of Mars. more

How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add meteors. more

The wispy, blue ice clouds of Mars are actually made of pulverized meteors, a new study claims. more

Next month, astronomers will scan the Beta Taurid meteor shower in search of asteroids that might someday threaten a potentially catastrophic collision with Earth. more

As your dog drags you around the block for his morning walk, you're probably not thinking about the wonders of the neighborhood sidewalk. But that concrete is pretty great. Next to water, it's the most widely used material... more

Mysterious rare meteorites made of a mix of stone and iron likely formed when Vesta, the brightest asteroid in the sky, experienced a giant impact, a... more

Scientists have finally located the site of the biggest meteorite collision in the U.K. more

Scientists believe they have discovered the site of the biggest meteorite impact ever to hit the British Isles. more

A 3,300-foot- (1 km) wide asteroid struck our planet 1.2 billion years ago, according to new research published... more

The site of the biggest meteorite collision in the U.K. was discovered in Scotland. more

Scientists have suggested there is a secret meteorite crater beneath the sea of The Minch strait in northwest Scotland. more

Evidence for the ancient, 1.2 billion years old, meteorite strike, was first discovered in 2008 near Ullapool, NW Scotland by scientists from Oxford and Aberdeen Universities. The thickness... more

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 p.m. at night. See how it happened in our... more

The Beta Taurids are rarely seen, but there's increasing evidence they've been strongly felt at least once in the past. more

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France — it... more

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France – it... more

Geologists gain new insights regarding the Earth's composition by analyzing meteorites. They conclude that the building blocks that brought volatile elements to Earth have a chemical composition similar to that of primitive carbonaceous chondrites. more

Chemical analyses of meteorites allow for a better estimation of the chemical composition of the Earth and its potential building blocks. That is the... more

Researchers scouring the desert for space rocks found the oldest collection of meteorites on Earth. more

Over the past few decades, astronomers have wondered if a nearby swarm of material — one... more

An international team of scientists has found a wealth of well-preserved stony meteorites in... more

A team has discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life is likely on the smaller planets in other planetary systems. more

Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise slam into Earth. Now they're closer to learning whether giant planets act as guardians of solar systems... more

Researchers scouring the desert for space rocks found the oldest collection of meteorites on Earth. more

Over the past few days a pair of spectacular fireballs have graced Australia's skies. more

Researchers have uncovered a wealth of well-preserved meteorites that allowed them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years. more

Earth is bombarded every year by rocky debris, but the rate of incoming meteorites can change over time. Finding enough meteorites scattered on the... more

A new study from Western University posits proof to the possibility that an oncoming swarm of meteors—likened to the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot by some extraterrestrial experts—may indeed pose an existential... more

Rocky was napping in a doghouse in Costa Rica on April 23 when a small meteorite punctured the roof. The dog was... more

A meteorite that hit Costa Rica last month was unlike anything to impact our planet in the last half century. more

Libyan desert glass is a natural glass found in western Egypt that formed 29 million years... more

On April 23 at 9:09 p.m. local time, residents of Aguas Zarcas, a small town in Costa Rica, saw a large "fireball" in the sky. more