The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite? NASA says this: A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image overlays over 100 fireball images recorded between 2016 and 2020. The streaks are fireballs; the dots are star ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

Meteor origins are diverse, ranging from asteroid collisions to comet debris, each with varying compositions. Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

On an ordinary day on Prince Edward Island, something extraordinary. *** sound never recorded before. Captured clearly in daylight. The smash steps away from Jo Vla's house. What hurtled from the sky ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...