Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

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A 6-foot-long iron meteorite named 'Lebanon' was spotted by Curiosity's cameras poking its head out of the Martian soil. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this photo of an iron meteorite called ...

~ But a battered mailbox netted nearly $83K. NEW YORK -- Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite. This space rock, discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023, is the largest ...

Approximately 3.26 billion years ago, a meteorite roughly 200 times larger than the one responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs crashed into Earth. This cataclysmic event, known as the S2 impact, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...

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