This chemical signature or fingerprint doesn't show up in studies of other large impacts on Earth, or in any geological ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

A man in Australia stored an unusual rock in his home for years, convinced it was hiding gold inside. But when experts ...

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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 ...

S omewhere in the early summer of 2025, China’s Chang’e6 capsule landed on the South Pole of the Moon and started digging its ...

BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...

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, ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged of a woman in France who claimed she'd been struck by a tiny, rebounding piece of meteorite while chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee. It would've been an ...