Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

These are the fun light shows we see during meteor showers when stargazing. U of A Meteorite Collection curator Chris Herd confirmed the space rock. Kelly and her partner used a vacuum and magnet ...

While many of us have seen the celestial joy of a shooting star, like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, very few people have actually witnessed one hit the ground. A doorbell camera in ...

The source of the splotch was officially registered on Monday as the Charlottetown meteorite, named after the city on Prince Edward Island, in eastern Canada, where it landed. Only 69 meteorites ...

Minutes later, a meteorite pummeled the walkway — exactly where Velaidum had been standing — and a Ring doorbell camera captured the entire incident on video. “I never stop on that spot ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

When meteorites fall to Earth ... may have kick-started [the process of] making much more complicated and interesting organics like the nucleobases,” says Sara Russell, a mineralogist at ...

"No other meteorite fall has been documented like this, complete with sound," says Dr. Chris Herd, a meteorite expert from the University of Alberta. Finding a meteorite anywhere in Canada is ...