(MoneyWatch) Get 'em while they're hot! Well, maybe not, in thecase of the sudden mania for meteorite fragments that slammed into a lake near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday -- and not just ...
The black, grainy meteorite embedded in rock from a Swedish quarry fell to Earth 470 million years ago. Chemically distinct from any meteorite yet discovered, it is likely debris from a massive ...
A Rare Rock from Another Planet Is Up for Auction — and It’s Expected to Sell for This Many Millions
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 ...
Two asteroids smashed into one another about 470 million years ago, spilling their cosmic guts out into the solar system. Today, scientists reported that they have found a new kind of meteorite which ...
On The Block: A doghouse that was struck by an asteroid has the second-highest estimate at an upcoming Christie's auction. An upcoming Christie’s auction has collectors starry-eyed: Deep Impact, ...
When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.
Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed through ...
The Fukang pallasite at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Copyright 2014 Symeon Platts/Arizona Board of Regents Cut off a thin slice of ...
For 50 years, scientists have wondered what annihilated the ancestor of L-chondrites, the roof-smashing, head-bonking meteorites that frequently pummel Earth. Now, a new kind of meteorite discovered ...
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