BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...

Hillwalkers have a “very exciting” opportunity to find meteorite fragments which scattered over Scotland this summer, researchers have said. The bright meteor was witnessed by by some Scots as it ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

A fireball disintegrated in the sky over Eureka Springs on Saturday night, possibly strewing meteorites from the tourist town northwest to Gateway. Or, it may have burned up entirely as it entered the ...