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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot  Â
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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  Â
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A 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was made from a meteorite, but its exact origins are still puzzling scientists
The Bronze Age arrowhead was found near a meteorite debris field in Switzerland. It's made from a m…
Mia Jankowicz  Â
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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  Â
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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  Â
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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  Â
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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  Â
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How to bake a meteorite — scientists are heating up space rocks to recreate the birth of planets
According to her, when the building blocks of a planet are coming together, the material is he…
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Moon meteorite in the Western Sahara contains an new mineral that could explain what's happening in the Earth's mantle
A team of European researchers has discovered a new high-pressure mineral named donwilhelmsite in t…
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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  Â
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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  Â
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In 1954, an Alabama woman became the first known person to be directly hit by a meteorite — here's her strange story
Ann Hodges, an Alabama woman, has the distinction of being the first documented case of a person be…
Matthew Wilson  Â
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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…
Associated Press,Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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Data from a NASA map confirms a bright meteorite landed just off the coast of South Australia
The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the California Institute of Technology analyzes the imp…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper  Â
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One of the biggest meteorite crashes in Earth's history flung debris across 3 continents 800,000 years ago. Scientists finally found the crater.
Then they measured gravitational fields around the Bolaven Plateau. Sure enough, the researchers fo…
Aylin Woodward  Â
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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  Â
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Video shows a meteorite exploding in the sky near Detroit with the force of a 2.0 earthquake
Video posted on social media Tuesday night shows drivers witnessing a flying rock that emitted a br…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper  Â
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A meteorite recently slammed into Mars and left this giant black stain of a crater
The large and circular dark stain is roughly 650 feet (200 meters) from top to bottom, or about the…
Dave Mosher  Â
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A diamond-encrusted meteorite that fell to Earth may come from a long-lost planet in our solar system
"Diamonds very often encapsulate and trap minerals and melts present in their formation environment…
Dave Mosher  Â
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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…