A team of researchers has reported the first laboratory synthesis and recovery of bulk hexagonal diamond, a crystal form long predicted to be harder than the conventional gems used in cutting tools ...

A fireball meteor exploded over Europe and scattered fragments across a German town, with one meteorite smashing through the roof of a house.

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Cops identify suspect involved in shots fired at Rihanna's Beverly Hills home. 35-year-old Florida woman Ivanna Ortiz is ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

Hundreds of glass fragments found in Brazil are traces of an ancient impact that scattered them millions of years ago, ...

He thought he’d struck gold in Victoria’s historic fields. Instead, a stubborn, unbreakable rock that defied saws, acid, and a sledgehammer hid a secret billions of years in the making.

Brazilian scientists have discovered glassy fragments, known as tektites, revealing evidence of a massive extraterrestrial impact event that occurred 6.3 million years ago.

Moscow — Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen ...

New NASA findings clarify the Moon’s impact record and Earth’s water sources by addressing whether meteorites delivered most of Earth’s water during later stages of planetary history. According to ...