It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. The ...

University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...

Scientists say a meteorite that struck a Henry County home is over 4 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt ...

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

On June 26, more than 200 people reported seeing a fireball flash through the daytime sky over the southeastern United States. Others simply heard it—the meteor generated a sonic boom that several ...

A meteorite fragment that burst through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been determined to be billions of years old and to predate the Earth, according to a geology professor. “A lot of ...

A meteorite fragment that burst through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been determined to be billions of years old and to predate the Earth, according to a geology professor. "A lot of ...

A large rock broke off Mars’s surface when an asteroid struck the planet, sending it flying through space. The roughly 54-pound slab then traveled 140 million miles to Earth, where it breached the ...

NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a ...

This record-breaking rock had losing bidders seeing red. At one of Sotheby’s Geek Week events, this Martian meteorite smashed through bidding expectations, which were between $2M to $4M. This ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...