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This is NOT the Russian Meteorite Crater

There's been a lot of really incredible videos and images of the meteor that streaked across Russian skies on Feb.…

12 years ago

Meteor Blast Rocks Russia

This just in: reports of bright meteors and loud explosions have been coming from Russia, with the incredible video above…

12 years ago

Is This Meteorite a Piece of Mercury?

The largest fragment of meteorite NWA 7325 (Photo © Stefan Ralew / sr-meteorites.de) Pieces of the Moon and Mars have been…

12 years ago

Ancient Impacts Stained Vesta with Carbon-Rich Material

Composite-color 3D image of Cornelia crater on Vesta (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Ever since arriving at Vesta in July 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft…

12 years ago

Is This Icy “Mega” Meteorite Really From Outer Space?

Earlier today, Euronews reported an icy "mega meteorite" fall in a farmer's field in the Hrira region of Morocco. The…

12 years ago

Meteorite Crashes Into London Cab

Londoners awoke this morning to news of a meteorite which struck a taxi in the heart of the city's busy…

13 years ago

New Mineral Found in Meteorite is From Solar System’s Beginnings

Scientists have discovered a new mineral embedded in a meteorite that fell to Earth over 40 years ago, and it…

13 years ago

Rare Pallasite Meteorite Found in Missouri

[/caption] Meteorite hunter Karl Aston finds meteorites not by digging in the ground, but by placing ads in local newspapers.…

13 years ago

A Meteorite Visits the Comettes

[/caption] When your last name is Comette, I'm sure the occasional astronomy-themed joke is never far away. But it's no…

13 years ago