It started with a rock that didn’t look like a big deal. Just a dark lump in the Sahara. The kind of thing you could walk ...
More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...
The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in Antarctica. Scientists recently scooped up one of the heaviest meteorites ever discovered in Antarctica, as well as four other ...
Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...
A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.
Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life ...
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 ...