Eventually, he took it to the Melbourne Museum, where geologists identified it as a rare meteorite. Its atmospheric-sculpted surface was the first clue pointing to its extraterrestrial origins.

SOME astronomical events we see often, like shooting stars, but these are only a fraction of the dazzling celestial wonders occurring over the vast expanse of time. However, there are still four ...

On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, a rock smashed through the back windshield of an SUV parked in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, ...

In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found. Almost 300g of a very rare ...

But slag often has visible bubbles — and “bubbles are extremely rare in in meteorites.” What’s valuable and fascinating about sorting the “meteorwrongs,” as the scientific community ...

Ioannis Baziotis is one of the leading Greek scientists in the field of planetary science and cosmochemistry. As Associate ...

Land north of Jacksonville could be hiding valuable meteorites that have gone undiscovered for years. Meteorite hunter Joe ...

Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have significant monetary value. The meteorite collection of Luomus is a Finnish national treasure. It is developed and ...

See an astonishingly rare meteorite, which was recovered in the UK after landing in the driveway of a house in the town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. The meteorite will give scientists at the ...

In February last year Christie’s held an online-only auction called Deep Impact: Martian Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites. The auction “shattered records” totalling $4,351,750 (£3,227,801 ...