A massive meteorite called the "largest piece of Mars on Earth" was sold for millions of dollars at a New York City auction. A bidder won the 55-pound space rock for $5,296,000 on Wednesday, July 16, ...

Imagine sipping your coffee when suddenly – BOOM! A sonic tremor rattles your home. That’s exactly what happened to one McDonough resident when a meteorite the size of a cherry tomato punched through ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 million years older than Earth ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...

A rare Martian meteorite, billed as the largest piece of Mars on Earth, captured attention when it fetched millions from an anonymous bidder at a recent Sotheby’s auction. But the move has caused ...

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 ...

A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...

In the beginning, Earth was a violent place with no atmosphere to soften the blow. About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...