John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

Meteorites - the rocks that hurtle from outer space and make it to Earth, get a moment to shine when collectors gather in Cincinnati to show off the treasures they have found this Saturday. Outer ...

A meteorite that exploded over the Houston area last month, sending fragments crashing into at least one local home, is now being examined by scientists at Rice University who say the space rocks ...

A bright field scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) micrograph showing a Wassonite grain in dark contrast. (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and ...

Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video ...

Outer space is filthy, littered with asteroids, dust. Maybe some sheet music for BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Some of that material enters our atmosphere, and if it makes landfall, it's ...