As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called fireballs—are caused by space rocks, or meteoroids, entering Earth's atmosphere at ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...