UK scientists and meteor experts have recovered pieces of a rare meteorite, just days after it entered Earth's atmosphere and streaked across the sky. Researchers are ecstatic. "Normally we have to send spacecraft to collect bits of other worlds, but this time one has fallen right into our laps!" one said.

Vote for your favorite photo of Earth taken by ISS astronauts in NASA's Tournament Earth 2021 contest.

Three very strong earthquakes in the ocean near New Zealand took place in less than 8 hours on Friday, local time. Tsunami warnings went out across the Pacific, including Hawaii, but have now been lifted.

On Friday, March 5, two astronauts will perform the 2nd in a pair of International Space Station spacewalks to ready the station for solar array upgrades. How to watch live.

NASA has selected 16 cool new futuristic space technology concepts for further study. Four of them are from NASA's own Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), including a railway system on the moon to move cargo.

A mammoth tooth uncovered from the Siberian permafrost yields the oldest DNA yet discovered and provides insight into the evolution of the giant beasts.

The striped pattern on the parachute used by the Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a hidden message. Internet sleuths were able to figure it out within a few hours.

You know the old problem of how to portray the round globe of Earth on a flat map? Now a trio of map experts has worked together to solve this problem. Their new map is 2-sided and round.

Jet contrail shadows may appear to be cast by a low-altitude bright light shining upwards. In fact, this shadow is normally cast on clouds below the jet and its contrail.

A magnetic reversal 42,000 years ago helped bring about earthly extinctions, scientists said, accompanied by changes in the sky including electrical storms and widespread auroras. "It would have been scary," they commented.