More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls onto Earth every year
Forget about killer asteroids for a second. Most of the extraterrestrial matter on Earth is invisible to the naked eye.
Forget about killer asteroids for a second. Most of the extraterrestrial matter on Earth is invisible to the naked eye.
It's so ancient it could help us understand the building blocks of planets.
They killed the dinosaurs but might have also kicked off life as we know it.
Any sign of this ancient onslaught has been erased from the surface of Earth, but the moon still has the ...
A rare form of an iron-carbide mineral was found by researchers
That's pretty metal.
It's one of the oldest meteorite impacts ever discovered.
No word on how much one of these shows will cost just yet.
The meteorite only lives as it is falling.
A meteorite might have slammed into the island as early as 12,000 years ago.
It's older than Earth itself!
Asteroids have families too.
We don't know much about how life bounces back after such a dramatic event.
New images may be posing more questions than they answer.
The meteorite will be used in NASA's ambitious Mars 2020 mission.
It's raining money. Incandescent, rocky money.
Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?
A unique cosmic stone challenges what we know about how the solar system formed.
They're the modern watchers on the wall.
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