Tektites are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of large meteorites against Earth's surface. Recently, a team of researchers found a new strewn field of them in the Brazilian state of ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected ...

According to Michele Bannister, there are a myriad of these little worlds in our Solar System as of now. We simply cannot see ...

The night lit up with blue and green flames on Feb. 10 as a fireball meteor streaked across the skies in Ohio. See the videos ...

Gazing up at the night sky, you may wonder: What is that? A bird? A plane? A...satellite? There are thousands of satellites orbiting our planet – SpaceX alone has launched more than 9,000, and there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellites in the night sky over a dramatic mountain - Vytautas Kielaitis/Shutterstock Gazing up ...

A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night. The National Weather Service Office in Tallahassee said the meteor exploded at ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Earth’s water was delivered by meteorites during the early history of the solar system. Researchers examining lunar samples say only a small fraction ...