A University of Colorado Boulder study has found that a rare type of meteorite likely came from a giant, ancient protoplanet that once existed in the solar system. Aaron Bell, a CU Boulder assistant ...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system ...

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Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world, possibly as big as the moon or even Mars, orbited our sun before crashing into another celestial body and shattering into rubble. Now, in a paper ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara required pressures at least 17 times deeper than the ocean floor to form — conditions ...

Scientists studying a rare, ancient angrite meteorite found in the Sahara Desert have uncovered evidence of a lost protoplanet from the early Solar System.

A rare, daytime metor streaked across the sky in Ohio Tuesday -- with a boom so loud it broke the sound barrier. A massive boom that shook northeast Ohio and was reportedly heard as far away as New ...

Most meteor showers are seen after dark, but the Arietids offer a rare chance to spot shooting stars in the dawn sky.