(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 ...
In the market for a gun that is out of this world? Then the Big Bang pistol may just be for you … provided you’ve got very, very deep pockets. Parts of the 4.5 billion-year-old Gibeon meteorite that ...
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, ...
Getting your hands on a piece of the Moon is pretty darn difficult for most of us. Some lunar missions have brought samples back from the Moon's surface, but those are typically held by scientists and ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the night of February 28, a rocky shard fell from the sky and lit up the atmosphere above England. The impressive fireball was caught by an international network of meteorite-tracking cameras, and ...
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 ...
Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is 90% sure the space rock that landed in southeast Michigan on Tuesday evening, causing an earthquake and some anxious moments, was a stony meteorite ...
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