Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...

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University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...

For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

A rare iron meteorite has been found in the Sahara Desert, providing scientists a unique glimpse into the cores of ancient ...

A meteorite that recently gave one Georgia resident quite a shock when it crashed through his roof spent an awful long time making a cosmic journey that ended in a living room. Multiple fragments of ...

CAIRO (Jared Collins/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered two meteorites in the Sahara Desert that they believe may have originated from Mercury. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bright object glimpsed streaking across the sky recently caused quite a bit of commotion as residents in Georgia and other ...