A meteorite sitting in storage for years will not announce what it is. Most of the roughly 80,000 meteorites in the global catalog spend decades in drawers and display cases, fully catalogued and ...

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Australia's space agency said there's a completely rational, albeit cosmic, explanation behind the mysterious orbs that ...

A University of Colorado Boulder study has found that a rare type of meteorite likely came from a giant, ancient protoplanet ...

As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many similar streaks across the sky, as I spend ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

The Pentagon released its fourth batch of UFO files Friday following President Trump’s declassification order, including ...

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or ...