But “.1% or less of inquiries that come in actually turn out to be meteorites,” Herd said. Velaidum, a university professor himself, did not readily accept the possibility that the object that struck ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big ...

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in ...

Research analyzing molybdenum isotopes in meteorites and Earth rocks shows our planet received its water later than ...

Meteorites have long been divided into two basic categories: the "falls" and the "finds." If any part of the event leading to the landing was witnessed, either by people or their equipment, it is ...

And just how common is a meteorite crashing down to Earth? The frequency of meteorites making it to the Earth's surface depends on their size, according to the University of Arizona's Lunar and ...

Namibia holds the keys to cosmic history with its meteorite craters - remnants of the universe's fiery ballet that shaped our ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

Due to a legal loophole, meteorites should, by default, belong to the finder. However, several archaeologists consider the ...

A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed onto his front porch in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. The meteorite, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, was ...

And just how common is a meteorite crashing down to Earth? The frequency of meteorites making it to the Earth's surface depends on their size, according to the University of Arizona's Lunar and ...