I’ve always found it hard to explain to people what my real job was. One year, as a guest at San Diego Comic-Con, I was sharing a ride to the venue with a fellow guest, whom I did not know. “So, what ...

A treasure hunt has been started, and if one person finds a big meteorite that recently crashed to Earth, a museum is willing to shell out $25,000. The Associated Press reported that a meteorite was ...

The Yale Peabody Museum is now home to one of the oldest and most valuable scientifically significant meteorite collection. Their second donation — this trove from the Planetary Studies Foundation ...

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, ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine’s border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up.

BETHEL, Maine (CBS/AP) — From an outsider's perspective , a museum that houses the five largest lunar meteorites may be as difficult to find as a space rock in a field. The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum ...

This post was updated Feb. 28 at 2:10 p.m. Jason Utas has long been in the craft of buying and selling meteorites. But Utas – a graduate student studying earth, planetary and space sciences – said ...

When you pick up a meteorite, you are holding an ancient piece of the solar system right in your hands. Most meteorites come from asteroids, which are debris left over from the violent, chaotic ...

NASA’sPerseverance rover has made an unexpected find on Mars: a possible meteorite. After five years on the Red Planet, the ...