Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

who collected the specimen and curates the University of Alberta’s meteorite collection, told CNN. “No other meteorite fall has been documented like this, complete with sound,” he said.

“We love being able to loan out the materials, so folks can do their own research and these rocks can tell us their stories,” says Cari Corrigan, curator of the meteorite collection.

A Kobe University study has finally solved this decades-old puzzle. Researchers found that when meteorites are hit, organic ...

Magnesium silicate glitters when light shines through it. The meteorite collection we care for contains more than 5,000 registered samples, representing about 2,000 different meteorites – there are ...

Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have significant monetary value. The meteorite collection of Luomus is a Finnish national treasure. It is developed and ...

New details are emerging about one meteorite's journey from space to Earth that was captured on video last year. Canadian homeowner Joe Velaidum and his dogs narrowly avoided being struck by the ...

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...