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, ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why ...

They flash across the night sky in seconds, sparking wishes and wonder. But these mysterious streaks hold far more secrets ...

South Africa probably has a lot more meteorites that haven’t been identified as such because they don’t stand out where they’ve landed or don’t look unusual enough for people to examine them.

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This weekend offers a special opportunity to see, and touch, some of the largest private collections of meteorites in the ...

This summer, something surprising took place in a quiet Georgia neighborhood. A bright fireball suddenly streaked across the daylight sky, taking everyone by surprise. Soon after, there was a loud ...

Dean chats with Scott VanBommel, meteorite hunter and senior research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Listen to learn what it takes to find a meteorite (you'll have to start looking ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our ...

Meteorite hunters have successfully recovered fragments of an asteroid that impacted Earth over Berlin, Germany, on Sunday (Jan. 21). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...