Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

The Lyrid meteor shower put on a spectacular show, delighting sky watchers overnight with a peak rate of 10 to 20 meteors per ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much ...

Seattle stargazers may be in for a treat this week as two meteor showers — the Lyrids and the Eta Aquarids — light up the ...

The best time to view the Lyrids is when Lyra, the Northern Hemisphere constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate ...

One of the oldest known meteor showers returns to the sky this week and will peak next week. How can astronomers observe this ...

The annual display of Lyrids, famous for bright “fireball” shooting stars, will occur from April 17-26, peaking on April 22, ...

As we move through the year and check celestial events off the calendar, there are still six meteor showers left to see in ...

"You will begin to see Lyrids after 10 p.m. local time," said Bill Cooke, who leads NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at ...