In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...
Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...
Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...
Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in Antarctica. Scientists recently scooped up one of the heaviest meteorites ever discovered in Antarctica, as well as four other ...
A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...
Earlier this week, a mysterious four-by-six-inch object punched through the roof of a New Jersey family’s home, ricocheting around the room before making a sizeable dent in the hardwood floor. Experts ...
Twin brothers retraced Ripert's steps, went through satellite and survey data to find the reality of 'Iron of God.' ...
CORVALLIS, Ore. – New age measurements of lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions have revealed that a surprising number of the rocks show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago, ...
A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...
When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...