A giant asteroid the size of three football fields barreled toward Earth. Its destination? Inver Grove Heights. This isn’t science fiction. It actually happened hundreds of millions of years ago, ...

Oh yeah, the amusement park is built on the grounds of a drug lord’s former estate in Colombian filmmaker Sebastián Múnera's feature directorial debut, which premieres in the Venice Critics' Week. By ...

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

A stony meteorite in NASA Ames Research Center's Arcjet Interaction Heating Facility. A thin black line outlines the holder that supports the stone (left). Air flow is from left to right. Melt flows ...

The Perseid meteor shower will be visible from July 14 to September 1, with peak viewing expected on August 12 and 13. A new moon during the peak will create ideal dark sky conditions for viewing the ...

Chicagoans disappointed to have missed out on Wednesday’s total eclipse that swept across Russia, Greenland, Iceland and Spain can still experience an awe-inspiring celestial event this week: a meteor ...

Photographers and stargazers, don't miss the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower Wednesday night! The American Meteor Society says, "The Perseid Meteor Shower offers a consistently high rate of meteors ...

JOHNSON, Ark — If you have been looking for one upside to the heat dome parked over Arkansas and Oklahoma, this may be it: clear skies could set the stage for one of the best meteor showers of the ...

An annual meteor shower that occurs in late summer will be highly visible on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, scientists said. The Perseid meteor shower begins in July and has peak viewing in ...

ABC7 received calls from several viewers about a possible meteor in Kane County on Thursday night. MONTGOMERY, Ill. (WLS) -- ABC7 received calls from several viewers about a possible meteor in Kane ...

A rare meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey roof contains evidence of ancient salty fluids, organic compounds, and amino acids from a primitive asteroid. Its pristine chemistry could offer new ...

Bronze Age Greek nobles may have sported space bling in their rings. Chemical analysis of 91 ancient iron weapons and jewelry turned up traces of nickel in about a dozen signet rings — a sign the iron ...