South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom, the cause of which was a falling meteorite.

Fireballs Aotearoa, a group interested in meteorites, said a sonic boom was widely reported as the object came in overhead. Although most of its mass burned up in the fireball stage, it was believed a ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Researchers from Bern have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite in Oman. It is the second such find in which the Natural ...