A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high speed, estimated at roughly 78,000 mph, the meteorite could have left a ...

Meteorites aren't very common in Florida, but there have been documented reports over the last 100-plus years, including three in this century. A fireball was reported by about 150 people from South ...

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground—just waiting to be picked up. Scientists have ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

The National Museum of the Philippines now has pieces of six of the seven Philippine meteorites. On August 5, the Pampanga, Paitan, and Ponggo meteorites were officially added to the National ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

Houston, Beverly R Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower Simmonds, N. A. H Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower ...