meteorites

Artist's impression of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa touching down on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005.

Extraterrestrial Life

Table Salt With Cosmic Twist: Asteroid Samples Unveil Water’s Ancient Journey To EarthAugust 29, 2023

Screen shot of fireball meteor seen in the UK

Cosmic Phenomena

Mysterious fireball soars over UK skies, with many believing ‘celestial moment’ linked to Queen ElizabethSeptember 15, 2022

Professor Andy Tomkins (left) from Monash University with RMIT University PhD scholar Alan Salek and a ureilite meteor sample.

Planets & Stars

Rare, mysterious diamonds found across the world traced to meteorites from ancient cosmic collisionSeptember 13, 2022

Meteor during Northern Lights

Meteor seen streaking through Scottish skies during Northern Lights displaySeptember 6, 2022

Aguas Zarcas meteorite

Cosmic Phenomena

Meteorites ‘spit’ out marble-sized rocks as they soar through space, but scientists unsure as to howAugust 15, 2022

Fragment of the Black Beauty meteorite.

Cosmic Phenomena

Mystery solved! Astronomers discover why rocks near an asteroid’s surface survive to ground as fallen meteoritesAugust 12, 2022

Moon photograph

How did the moon form? Study could finally explain origins of Earth’s only natural satelliteAugust 11, 2022