The Lyrid meteor shower put on a spectacular show, delighting sky watchers overnight with a peak rate of 10 to 20 meteors per ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

These are places that I initially thought it'd be okay to go meteorite hunting, but it's most certainly not. Considering the Goddard v Winchell case, however, it makes sense. Those meteorites ...

An open-source global fireball detection network would be a shoe-in for next year’s Hackaday Prize if done right, and there are tons of cool stuff here: computer vision and meteorite hunting are ...

The meteorite was inherited from the previous farmland owner, who says it came down in the 1930s. Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the ...

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 ...