The black, grainy meteorite embedded in rock from a Swedish quarry fell to Earth 470 million years ago. Chemically distinct from any meteorite yet discovered, it is likely debris from a massive ...
On March 15, 1806, a meteorite fell from the sky near the town of Alais, France. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Known as the Alais meteorite, this was the first object from space ...
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 ...
A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...
A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...
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 ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A giant ...
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-sized object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars. To figure out exactly what ...
An ancient space rock discovered in a Swedish quarry is a type of meteorite never before found on Earth, and likely a remnant of a massive asteroid collision 470 million years ago that sent debris ...
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