FEDERALSBURG, Md. -- Two meteorite hunters canvased open land and downtowns on Wednesday, on the hunt for meteorites. With a little bit of patience and luck, Roberto Vargas and Mike Hankey just might ...

Dean chats with Scott VanBommel, meteorite hunter and senior research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Listen to learn what it takes to find a meteorite (you'll have to start looking ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Feb. 6, 2017, a meteor -- believed to be as big as a small car -- streaked across the sky above Wisconsin. The atmosphere smashed it into thousands of little pieces, which fell in ...

When a fireball from space crashed into the rocky plains of southeast Morocco in September, Mohamed Benitjit topped up the credit on his mobile phone and packed a bag with a tiny magnet and a few ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

At the world’s most renowned meteorite show, in Ensisheim in France, I noticed there were many dealers from Morocco. Unlike most of the Europeans and Americans—who had display cases and labels and ...

Riches from outer space are pulling meteorite hunters into Morocco’s Sahara Desert, where a fast-growing trade in space rocks is changing remote communities and sparking intense races each time a ...

(Nintzel) You’re doing a meteorite-hunting boot camp. It starts next weekend. What can we look forward to? (Notkin) I’m excited! I’ve been doing this for such a long time and for many years on ...