I climbed up the long ladder, hands cold on the metal, and pulled myself up onto the sprawling asphalt roof of a warehouse. Jon Larsen had gone up first and stood, grinning, as a slight drizzle began ...

Just a few weeks ago, we reported on a US NASA project to track the path and estimate the size of meteoroids in the sky using a distributed network of a handful of cameras. It turns out that there ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But the ones that crash on land can spark debates about legal ownership.

Researchers in the United States are using autonomous drones to photograph and then analyse little-known meteorite impact sites, looking for small, well-hidden pieces of space rock. Artificial ...

In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...