In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

In a story that's beginning to go viral, a French woman describes how she was injured when she was struck by a rock from space. But experts suggest all is not what it seems with this meteorite tale.

Here's a reminder Earth isn't the only planet with cool meteorites. Mars gets its share of incoming space rocks too. NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a beauty of a specimen in the Gale Crater in ...

For one, the rock pictured in Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA). the French newspaper that broke the story, bears little resemblance with confirmed meteorites. "The pictures CLEARLY show ...

The bit of falling space rock, caught on camera in July, was confirmed to be a meteorite by the University of Alberta, which said that the footage was the first of its kind. The video shows the ...

On Thursday, researchers at the College of New Jersey confirmed that the rock had tumbled from space. The discovery of a meteorite sent a wave of excitement through Hopewell Township, where Kop ...

It is also offering to buy any other pieces of meteorite rock recovered from the 8 April event. Those who believe they have found a meteorite rock can bring it to the museum for testing.

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.