A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

In the mid-1990s, a meteorite with the unmemorable name ALH84001 became the most famous rock in the world. Because one team ...

Interactive science exhibits and alcohol combine in the monthly adult-only Science on the Rocks event at Discovery Place Science in Charlotte, North Carolina. See what all the fun is about in my ...