The recent meteor strike over Chelyabinsk, Russia is reminding all of us just how vulnerable we are to attacks from above. So I reached out to Phil Pl...
MOSCOW -- Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, and preliminary tests are turning ...
Recently I met Geoff Notkin; a big kid who is still collecting rocks. Not just any rock, but the meteorite kind. I learned he didn't have to travel outer space to find them.
Our knowledge of outer space is a lot like our knowledge of history -- it's really hard to separate what we know from research from what we picked up ...
The Comettes were on vacation when their home was hit by a meteorite. The egg-sized space rock stayed buried in the insulation of the French family's ...
Between the 11 hours on my first weekend, various visits after work, and coming after-hours to see the Glenn lecture, the National Air and Space Museum now felt like familiar territory.
Okay, so now on to what I came for in the first place -- the meteorites! Touchable meteorites always get me excited, because those hunks of stone and iron are the oldest things it's possible to touch -- the ancient leftovers of the formation of our solar system.
A meteorite discovered in Antarctica may help to reveal how life on earth began.
Many theories suggest that Earth initially did not possess the mole...
A Bosnian man who claims he is being targeted by extraterrestrials after a series of meteorite strikes on his house has now been hit by a sixth space ...