Meteors

Even though cyanide is a deadly poison for humans, scientists have found that its presence in meteorites may help us to better understand life itself.

Cotton candy clouds in the Martian middle atmosphere may owe their life to dying meteors.

Next month, astronomers will scan the Beta Taurid meteor shower in search of asteroids that might someday threaten a potentially catastrophic collision with Earth.

The site of the biggest meteorite collision in the U.K. was discovered in Scotland.

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France — it rained rocks.

Rocky was napping in a doghouse in Costa Rica on April 23 when a small meteorite punctured the roof. The dog was fine, but couldn't hope to match scientists' interest in fetching the stray meteorite.

An Illinois police officer on a routine trip earlier this month saw a fireball suddenly light up the sky in front of the car's dashboard camera.

Visit the right patch of desert along the border of Libya and Egypt, and you could stumble on pieces of pale yellow glass, the traces of a meteorite impact that took place 29 million years ago.

Look toward the water jar of the constellation Aquarius after midnight this Sunday morning to catch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower.

A meteorite smashed into the moon's surface at some 38,000 miles per hour (61,000 kilometers per hour) while our lunar neighbor was in total eclipse in January, a new report reveals.

Look up: It's the Lyrid meteor shower!

The first meteor to hit Earth from interstellar space — and the second observed interstellar visitor overall — may have just been discovered, a new study finds.

Researchers have found a piece of a comet — an object made up of ice and dust — inside of a space rock known as a stony meteorite.

A bright green fireball east of Tallahassee, Florida sparked nearly 250 witness reports for the American Meteor Society across several states.

NASA's Terra satellite captured striking views of the meteor that exploded over the Bering Sea on Dec. 18, 2018.

Astronomers just got the goods on the meteor that flared up over Cuba earlier this month.

Hundreds or millions of years after a meteorite smashes into Earth, researchers are left analyzing the impact site to figure out what happened.

For sale: Meteor that nearly destroyed Siberia. Lightly used.

The moon is shrouded by darkness and then re-emerges with dynamic color and activity in a new time-lapse video featuring this past weekend's total lunar eclipse.