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 ...

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, ...

The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in Antarctica. Scientists recently scooped up one of the heaviest meteorites ever discovered in Antarctica, as well as four other ...

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Man’s “gold nugget” find in Australia turns out to be a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, offering rare clues to the early ...

An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...

Earlier this week, a mysterious four-by-six-inch object punched through the roof of a New Jersey family’s home, ricocheting around the room before making a sizeable dent in the hardwood floor. Experts ...

On November 30, 1954,Ann Elizabeth Hodges experienced what would become one of the most bizarre events in the history of ...

A US museum is offering $25,000 (£19,986) to anyone who can provide a fragment of a meteorite that landed near the US-Canada border in April. On 8 April, a remote area between Maine and the Canadian ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – New age measurements of lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions have revealed that a surprising number of the rocks show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago, ...