Stumbling upon a meteorite might seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it’s not as uncommon as you might think. What’s crucial, however, is knowing how to handle such a cosmic treasure to preserve ...

Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...

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

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing.

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 ...

The McDonough Meteorite, a 4.56-billion-year-old Low Metal (L) ordinary chondrite, impacted a Georgia home on June 26th, 2024. Eyewitness accounts and social media reports documented a significant ...

Meteorites - the rocks that hurtle from outer space and make it to Earth, get a moment to shine when collectors gather in Cincinnati to show off the treasures they have found this Saturday. Outer ...

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, ...

It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of fiery light that appeared above his Cantonment home without a sound. "To ...

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. A Henry County man won a lottery of sorts when a space rock — seen for hundreds of miles around as a ...