Well, you’re in for a treat. Meteors, meteorites, comets, asteroids… there are so many names for the various space rocks out there, it can sometimes be tricky to understand what precisely we ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without ...

Scientists have discovered DNA’s building blocks inside ancient meteorites, suggesting that life’s origins may be extraterrestrial. These space rocks, which landed on Earth billions of years ...

Close to our world, astronomers have already found 2,500 large space rocks. Most of them remain undiscovered, even though computer simulations suggest there could be another 25,000. The chief ...

The rock has hundreds of spherules on it ... context and origin," the mission team said in the statement. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and ...