Meteorite-dial timepieces aren’t just aesthetically pleasing—they also contain the secrets to the origins of life.

It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of ...

The calendar’s hottest watch fair unfolded last week in Dubai (in 31 degree heat no less), though anyone scrolling through Instagram probably already knew, judging by the flood of Burj Khalifa shots ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

H. Moser & Cie.’s Streamliner Perpetual Moon Concept Meteorite spotlights a fumé golden meteorite dial Powered by the HMC 270 automatic calibre, the moonphase is accurate to one day in 1,027 years Its ...

Heather Handley works for Museums Victoria Research Institute. She is affiliated with Monash University. Dermot Henry receives funding from Australian Research Council. Oskar Lindenmayer is affiliated ...

Elon Musk once famously said that Tesla FSD should drive perfectly even if a UFO lands in the middle of the road. For an Australian Tesla Model Y owner, the closest thing to a UFO hit his car, and it ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...

At 10:58 AM on Sept. 28, 1969, residents of the small farming community of Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, heard a series of loud booms. The noise was accompanied by a strong smell and a streak of ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...