Meteorite NWA 16788, the largest known piece of Mars on Earth. (Sotheby's via SWNS) By Dean Murray An otherworldly piece of ...

These futuristic-seeming weapons were actually used far in the past. Researchers found that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, proving that alien ...

Ann Hodges is the only confirmed person in history to have been hit by a meteorite. ... Guy settled out of court, giving up her claim to the meteorite in exchange for $500.

Meteorites come in three basic types: stony, stony-iron, and iron. ... To obtain a purified meteorite sample, meteoriticists use a process called ion exchange column chromatography.

Meteor Crater in Arizona is considered the best-preserved meteorite impact site, made by an approximately 150-foot-wide meteorite about 50,000 years ago. Could a person be hit by a meteorite?

For possibly the first time ever, a meteorite has been captured on video and audio as it struck the Earth, just outside one man's home. Joe Velaidum, of Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada ...

Herd added that when the meteorite, which likely weighed around one kilogram, first entered the atmosphere, it was traveling about 50 times the speed of sound, or 60,000 kilometers per hour.

Historic meteorite crash on Prince Edward Island captured with sound, marking a first in recorded history. Out-of-this-world home security video captured an extraordinary sight, and a sound never ...

Bryson, a co-author on the study published earlier this month in Icarus, and his colleagues investigated an enstatite chondrite meteorite from Alaska known as LAR 12252. While a previous study of ...

The researcher says the meteorite likely broke off from an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. We often see them speed across our. Skies, but in Canada, only about 70 meteorites have been recovered.

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars ...