A homeowner on Prince Edward Island in Canada has had a very unusual near-death experience: A meteorite landed exactly where he’d been standing roughly two minutes earlier. What’s more ...

The meteorite, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite ... the capital of Prince Edward Island off the eastern coast of Canada. "The shocking thing for me is that I was standing right there a couple ...

Even in Herd’s line of work, incidents like the meteorite strike in Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest province that lies just north of Nova Scotia — almost never come up.

Meteorite experts at the University of Alberta in Canada studied the video and the debris and said it is “likely the first and only time the sound of a meteorite hitting the Earth has been ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

They pale in comparison to this, Velaidum told Mashable. The meteorite is one of only 69 known to have struck Canada, according to The Meteoritical Society, which maintains the most comprehensive ...

The specimen was named "Charlottetown" after the city on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada where it struck. While 69 meteorites have been discovered and registered nationwide, the ...

Hunting for meteorites can be a high-octane race as private collectors and scientists go head-to-head, reveals a new book by New Scientist features editor Joshua Howgego ...