Highly Skilled craftsmanshipA ge with a meteoritic iron blade mounted in bronze was found in the tomb of a ruler from the eighth or ninth century B.C. The weapon represents an innovation in ...

Not all heavy, rust-colored “gold rocks” are from Earth. In the historic goldfields of southeastern Australia, a prospector ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on earth to have touched a meteorite. These prized extraterrestrial fragments not ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BILLINGS — In 1990 a piece of the heavens fell in Roundup. But you’ll have to go to New York City ...

A woman in Okulovka, Russia, discovered a meteorite lodged in her roof after a bright green fireball was seen across several regions on October 27. Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

"There is no rhyme or reason to where meteorites are," Kilgore said. One of Kilgore's larger specimens is a 940-pound stony-iron pallasite meteorite he found in China. He said he traveled to ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...

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 ...

Multiple fragments of the space rock that tore through a home about 65 miles southwest of Athens were recently analyzed at the University of Georgia to determine its origin. A geologist at the ...