A fireball meteor exploded over Europe and scattered fragments across a German town, with one meteorite smashing through the roof of a house.

A meteorite that fell in Germany in 1724 contains a form of silica that conducts heat in a stable manner and baffles physicists.

A meteorite fragment punched through the roof of a home in the Koblenz-Güls district of Koblenz, Germany, on 8 March 2026, after a bright fireball streaked across European skies for roughly six ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Meteorite found in Finland reveals unprecedented phosphorus levels, one of the rarest in the solar system today ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

A bacterium already famous for shrugging off extreme radiation and desiccation has now passed another brutal test: surviving ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon.

Some of the small glass blobs originating with a mysterious ancient impact. (Crósta et al., Geology, 2025) Hundreds of glass ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...