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 ...

Scientists analyzed stardust from a meteorite that fell to Earth 50 years ago which revealed the 5 to 7 billion-year-old stardust to be the oldest solid material on Earth. This dust was made of ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Where do shooting stars come from? It’s long been known that meteors ...