Using microorganisms to mine meteorites could be an effective way to extract precious metals in space, scientists say. This ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, a fungus spread thin threads across the rock.

When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet.

Home video and audio of a meteorite crashing into the sidewalk outside a Canadian man’s home is believed to be the only recording of its kind. “As far as I know, and I’ve asked around, it’s probably ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for a ...

A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed onto his front porch in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. The meteorite, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, was captured ...

On a dreary day in a nondescript field, I visit the site where a 4.56 billion-year-old bit of space rock came to Earth ...