Hillwalkers have a “very exciting” opportunity to find meteorite fragments which scattered over Scotland this summer, researchers have said. The bright meteor was witnessed by by some Scots as it ...

Hikers in Scotland are being asked to assist scientists in a “race against time” to recover fragments of a meteorite streaked across the sky on July 3. On September 12, the UK Fireball Alliance ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

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, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A group of scientists took to the skies in a blimp Thursday in search of meteorites that rained over California's gold country last month. It's the latest hunt for ...

A fireball disintegrated in the sky over Eureka Springs on Saturday night, possibly strewing meteorites from the tourist town northwest to Gateway. Or, it may have burned up entirely as it entered the ...

"Allende Meteorite." Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Web. 24 June 2013. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9622, Clarke, Roy S., Jr. interviewee, ...

There are old surfaces. Meteorites contain iron, so we might sort of look for the dry areas where they won’t decompose. And I went on a mission, and I said, “Geoff, enough’s enough! You’ve been ...

In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kurosawa says: “We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject ...