See photos from their successful meteorite hunt here, courtesy of Hankey and the AMS. HERE: AMS's fireball trajectory intersects with meteor cloud in hunt for meteorites that fell to Earth in ...

Sotheby’s will auction massive Martian meteorite NWA 16788, and is accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC bids for a piece of ...

A piece of Mars delivered from space is soon going to the auction circuit, and is supposedly going to demand a hefty price.

The composition of meteorites, those cryptic chunks of metal and rock that crash down to Earth, depends on a number of factors, like whether the meteorite broke off from an asteroid, a comet, or ...

More than a hundred meteorites ranging in weight from a few ounces to at least a half-ton will soon conclude their journey from the distant reaches of the solar system to the mainstream of the ...

Scientists have detected bits of adenine, guanine and other organic compounds in meteorites since the 1960s (SN: 8/10/11, SN: 12/4/20).Researchers have also seen hints of uracil, but cytosine and ...

An annotated all-sky image captured a “fireball” in the sky on Nov. 24, 1970. The fireball is believed to be the Ischgl meteorite that landed in Tyrolean Austria.