Meteorites, fragments of asteroids or comets that survive the journey through Earth's atmosphere and land on its surface, provide researchers with valuable scientific insights. These space rocks ...
A handful of meteorites crash-landed outside Berlin in late January and, after further inspection, turned out to be one of the rarest types of space rock ever recovered on Earth. Last month, a ...
Three federal entities, including NASA, are reaffirming their commitment to search for Antarctic meteorites, to help learn more about the primitive building blocks of the solar system and answer ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Feb. 6, 2017, a meteor -- believed to be as big as a small car -- streaked across the sky above Wisconsin. The atmosphere smashed it into thousands of little pieces, which fell in ...
BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania - You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...
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 Antarctic ice is home to stuff “not of this Earth.” The team set up camp along the Transantarctic Mountains at the Miller Range, about halfway between McMurdo Station and the South Pole. Each year ...
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Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...