A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long ...

One billion years ago, a meteorite struck northwest Scotland, hitting the region 200 million years later than previously thought. The impact aligns with some of the earliest known land-based ...

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Bryson, a co-author on the study published earlier this month in Icarus, and his colleagues investigated an enstatite chondrite meteorite from Alaska known as LAR 12252. While a previous study of ...

Hama Sidi Othaman holds up a suspected meteorite in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, on Jan. 29. A self-styled meteorite broker, Sidi Othaman says he has been hunting for meteorites since 2011.

Once a meteor hits the ground, it’s classified as a meteorite. A total of 28 meteorites have been found in Georgia since 1829, according to data from the Meteoritical Society.