The Orionid meteor shower, which originates from Halley's Comet, is expected light up the night sky starting this weekend.

The Orionid meteor shower will peak this week as Earth busts through a stream of meteoroids left in the inner solar system by ...

Dani and Evan Benton moved to Japan's Ōmishima Island from New Orleans in 2023. They purchased an abandoned 3-bedroom, 1-bathroom house for $7,500 and turned it into an Airbnb.

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

In fact, this particular asteroid family dominates nearly 40% of all meteorites that have fallen to Earth, with two other families of space rocks named as the source of most Earth-bound meteorites.

Around 70 percent of meteorites on Earth are classified as either H or L chondrites. H chondrites are generally iron-heavy, while L chondrites are rich in the mineral olivine and have ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

Unlike many meteor showers, the Draconids aren’t ones you’ll have to stay up late to witness because the shower is most ...

The Draconid meteor shower has returned for its annual show in the skies — and while this year’s spectacle may be fainter than in past years, experts think 2025’s light show could be ...

Stargazers in the northern hemisphere will have the chance to observe the Draconid meteor shower as it peaks Monday evening into early Tuesday morning. The Draconids are somewhat of an oddity when ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – An annual meteor shower known as the Draconids peaks tonight (October 7) into Tuesday morning. You may ...