Dozens of meteorite hunters spread across farmland and wooded areas in northern Ohio this week, searching for fragments of a roughly 7-ton space rock that blazed through the morning sky on March 17, ...

The black, grainy meteorite embedded in rock from a Swedish quarry fell to Earth 470 million years ago. Chemically distinct from any meteorite yet discovered, it is likely debris from a massive ...

A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...

December Harris was one of many Medina County cosmic treasure hunters Wednesday hoping to find a meteorite, but never ...

BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...

MEDINA COUNTY, Ohio – The tiny black specks of rock that 10-year-old Mason Betsa held in his palm in River Styx Park on ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-sized object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars. To figure out exactly what ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is 90% sure the space rock that landed in southeast Michigan on Tuesday evening, causing an earthquake and some anxious moments, was a stony meteorite ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A giant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite. The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in ...