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

The fight to claim a 3.5-tonne space rock didn't just kickstart a publicity battle that divided an empire — it also left a gaping hole in culture. Centuries on, the question remains: Who owned it?

Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor shower, has intrigued scientists for years because it's an asteroid that behaves like a comet. New research may reveal the reason why this oddball gets so ...

A new Southwest Research Institute-led study proposes a solution to a longstanding puzzle in planetary science: What caused ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteor showers happen every year and are a spectacular sight. Jim Vajda/Flickr, CC BY Have you ever been out at night and seen a ...