Curiosity finds weird metallic meteorite on Mars
While taking its usual stroll on Mars, the Curiosity Rover found something unexpected: a dark, smooth meteorite.
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Second largest meteorite in the world, a 30-tonne monster, unearthed in Argentina
This puppy must have made some damage.
AstroPicture of the Day: Moonless Meteors and the Milky Way
All APODs are spectacular in their own way - but every once in a while, there's one that's just amazing. ...
Have geologists discovered all the big craters on Earth?
Mars has over 250,000 craters created by asteroid impacts, the Moon has millions - too many to count. But the ...
Meteorites Not Responsible For Building Solar System, Study Finds
For decades, astronomers have believed that meteorites are the building blocks of our solar system - the lego blocks for ...
The Woman who was struck by a meteorite
The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954, at 14:46 local time (18:46 UT) in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga. ...
Skydiver nearly struck by meteor, catches it all on film
Anders Helstrup and several other members of Oslo Parachute Club were expecting a good time, and no major events when ...
Largest lunar impact ever recorded
A piece of rock traveling at at 61,000 km/h punched a crater 40 metres wide on the surface of the ...
145 million year old body of seawater found under Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay is one of the few oceanic impact craters on Earth When the huge impact took place ~35 million ...
Meteoroid that caused massive damage in Russia fully described
At the beginning of the year the most powerful meteoroid strike since the infamous Tunguska event took place in Russia, ...
Tunguska event was caused by meteor strike, rock sample analysis finds
You may have heard about the Tunguska event - a huge blast of energy which occurred in 1908 over Russia and flattened ...
Ancient Egyptians had alien jewelry
This ancient Egyptian trinket may not look like much, but it hides a very interesting story. Researchers have found that ...
Meteor crash on the moon causes biggest explosion since monitoring
In March, a medium sized meteorite slammed into the moon's surface causing the greatest explosion observed thus far, ever since ...
Early asteroids in our solar system may have been giant mudballs, not rocks
There are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Be them the size of France or a small bus, these ...
Extraterrestrial life found in meteorites? Uhm, probably not
Ok, so big news on the horizon: alien life forms have been found in a meteorite that recently crashed in ...
Seas of molten and solidified rock on the Moon can be mistaken for pristine rocks
A new analysis of data from NASA's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) shows that molten rock created by lunar impacts ...
Origin of meteorite that shook Russia traced using amateur footage
Most of us likely own a phone that has more computing power than that available for the entire Apollo mission ...
NASA radar observation shows asteroid 2012 DA14 flyby [VIDEO]
I realize we're maybe bugging some of you with these constant asteroid/meteor pieces here on ZME Science, but for what's ...
A map of every meteor strike since 2300 BC
The recent historical flyby of 2012 D14 - the largest asteroid ever to pass this close to Earth in recorded ...
New mineral discovered in 4.5 billion year-old meteorite
Using 21st century nanotechnology, researchers have discovered a new mineral in samples from a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969. ...