On March 17, a space rock the size of a basketball slammed into the lunar surface at a speed of 56,000 miles per hour, creating a new crater around 20 meters wide. Continue reading →
A Russian scientist claims to have found three tiny meteorite samples from the 1908 Tunguska event. Did they really originate from the historic fireball? Continue reading →
Forget hunting for organic chemistry inside rocks on Mars or complex organisms in Europa's sub-surface oceans, the Cosmos has just FedEx'd some extraterrestrials direct to our door! Or not. ->
Before it collided with Earth, the Chelyabinsk space rock was a 10,000 ton meteoroid -- now astronomers think they know where it came from. ->
A meteorite map pinpoints the locations of 34,513 strikes, dating back to 2,300BC. ->
More than 900 people were injured Friday morning after a meteor streaking to Earth triggered a powerful sonic boom. Learn what caused the powerful boom. ->
The dramatic footage of a meteor exploding over Russia was brought to us via the necessity of driving with a dashboard camera on lawless Russian roads. ->
On June 28, 1911, an explosion shook the Nakhla region of Alexandria in Egypt at 9 a.m. According to an eyewitness account, a dog perished in the resulting meteorite fall.
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