You Searched For "meteorite news" and got 19 results
Sort By:
3 mins read
A coffin maker says he feels 'cheated' after selling a meteorite that smashed through his roof for $14,000, but the price was probably fair
An expert who talked to the BBC said he "had to laugh" at the number being widely circulated by new…
Naina Bhardwaj
1 min read
A meteorite landed inches away from a woman's pillow as she slept
"The next thing was just a huge explosion and debris all over my face," Hamilton told CBC. "I didn'…
Azmi Haroun
1 min read
A Massive Chunk Of What Might Be 'The Russian Meteorite' Was Just Pulled From A Frozen Lake
Scientists still need to verify that the hunk of rock came from space and was actually part of the …
Dina Spector
1 min read
A Massive Chunk Of What Might Be 'The Russian Meteorite' Was Just Pulled From A Frozen Lake
Scientists still need to verify that the hunk of rock came from space and was actually part of the …
Dina Spector
2 mins read
Possible meteorite crashes through the roof of a New Jersey home, lands in bedroom still warm
The likely space rock was about the size of a grapefruit. It could have come from the Eta Aquarids …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
2 mins read
King Tut's dagger was likely forged from a falling star
The researchers used X-rays to analyze the chemical signatures of the knife and found that it has h…
Ali Sundermier
2 mins read
Chinese scientists created a robot that can make oxygen on Mars. It could allow humans to someday live on the red planet.
The robot was able to come up with the experiment and carry it out "without human intervention." It…
Marianne Guenot
3 mins read
Tonight's Perseid meteor shower will create up to 100 meteors an hour - plus 'moon flashes'
It's difficult for astronomers to spot a meteor hitting the moon - it takes a good telescope and a …
Kelly Dickerson
5 mins read
There's new evidence that life on Earth began with meteorites crashing into warm little ponds
In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researc…
Kevin Loria
2 mins read
Astronauts Have To Deal With Terrifying Meteors All Of The Time
I was Canada's first spacewalker, doing 2 to help build the mighty Canadarm2 robot onto ISS. It was…
Dina Spector
4 mins read
A meteor that incinerated the residents of an ancient city inspired the biblical story of Sodom, research suggests
Millennia ago, a meteor half the size of the Statue of Liberty struck an Middle Eastern city. The e…
Aylin Woodward
1 min read
Another Meteor Spotted, This Time Over California
Gerald McKeegan, an astronomer with the Chabot Space and Science Center, told the San Jose Mercury …
Dina Spector
3 mins read
An Italian designer debuted a pair of heels reportedly worth $20 million, made of solid gold, 30 carats of diamonds, and meteorite - and he claims they're 'the most expensive shoes in the world'
Expensive shoes have surpassed luxury handbags as the latest status symbol, Business Insider's Mary…
Hillary Hoffower
3 mins read
Russia has plans to build missiles for space that could be fired at a moment's notice
"Most rockets work on boiling fuel. Their fueling begins 10 days before the launch and, therefore, …
Jessica Orwig
3 mins read
Mysterious patches of glass scattered across the Chilean desert are likely the products of an ancient exploding comet
Heat from a comet explosion likely melted and fused soil in the Chilean desert, transforming it int…
Aria Bendix
3 mins read
Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils found at Tanis in North Dakota are believed to date back to the mass extinction ev…
Marianne Guenot,Alia Shoaib
3 mins read
Werner Herzog's new film, 'Fireball,' explores the power and mystery of meteorites
Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer directed the film, which premiered Friday on Apple TV+. Herzog …
Susie Neilson
1 min read
This guy's description of the missing F-35 crashing in South Carolina is perfection
A man who heard the missing F-35 stealth fighter scream past his house and crash thought it was a "…
Paul Squire
3 mins read
Video shows aftermath of Brazil museum fire, with almost nothing left but an ancient meteorite
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, the museum's deputy director, said that anything held in the main buildi…