In March 1975, two amateur prospectors trekked deep into the remote Old Woman Mountains in the Mojave Desert. Like others long before and after them, the pair were hoping to find gold and strike it ...

A giant asteroid the size of three football fields barreled toward Earth. Its destination? Inver Grove Heights. This isn’t science fiction. It actually happened hundreds of millions of years ago, ...

Oh yeah, the amusement park is built on the grounds of a drug lord’s former estate in Colombian filmmaker Sebastián Múnera's feature directorial debut, which premieres in the Venice Critics' Week. By ...

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

A stony meteorite in NASA Ames Research Center's Arcjet Interaction Heating Facility. A thin black line outlines the holder that supports the stone (left). Air flow is from left to right. Melt flows ...

Chicagoans disappointed to have missed out on Wednesday’s total eclipse that swept across Russia, Greenland, Iceland and Spain can still experience an awe-inspiring celestial event this week: a meteor ...

The Swift-Tuttle comet leaves a generous amount of material for Earth to fly through, resulting in the Perseids meteor shower. Peter Jenniskens/Ian Webster The first-ever report of the Perseid meteor ...

A rare meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey roof contains evidence of ancient salty fluids, organic compounds, and amino acids from a primitive asteroid. Its pristine chemistry could offer new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alpha Capricornids. (Getty Images) Two meteor showers will simultaneously dazzle the sky tonight, caused by Earth's orbit passing ...