Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our ...

On an ordinary February afternoon, a sudden flash lit up the sky above northwestern France. To most who saw it, it seemed like nothing more than a fleeting meteor or perhaps a bright shooting star.

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Scientists say a meteorite that struck a Henry County home is over 4 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt ...

A meteorite that ripped through the roof of a home in Georgia earlier this summer is older than Earth itself, according to a scientist who examined fragments of the space rock. A mysterious fireball ...

A meteorite fragment that burst through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been determined to be billions of years old and to predate the Earth, according to a geology professor. "A lot of ...