An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue ...

The South Taurid and North Taurid meteor showers peak in early November. Here's everything you need to know about this month's doubleheader of shooting stars. The North Taurid meteor shower peaks ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies — and will peak a week apart. The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith early Tuesday morning and the ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study of the remnants of a 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that ...

a behavior sometimes known as "making biscuits" Cool Finds The critter found in New York represents a new, extinct species of arthropod that could shed light on the evolution of today's insects ...

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GSI’s meteorite repository opens in Kolkata Features 643 meteorites, including Martian Shergotty New Kopargaon addition from Maharashtra The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has unveiled a new ...

In a study published last Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe a meteorite called S2 as being four times the size of Mount Everest—that makes it as ...

And that annual record proved short-lived. Saturday, SpaceX launched the 73rd rocket of the year from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and adjacent NASA's Kennedy Space Center — and it's only ...