Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

A polarized-light microscopy image (in background) of a section from the Allende meteorite is one-thousandth of a millimeter thin. Chip Clark / NMNH Most likely it came from the asteroid belt ...

Then, in 1969, the Murchison meteorite smashed into Australia. One of the oldest known remnants of the pre-Earth solar system, this meteorite played a pivotal role in confirming the presence of ...

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a ...

The Murchison meteorite fell only two months after the first manned landing on the moon in 1969, when researchers were ready to study moon rocks and eagerly trained their instruments on this other ...

A doorbell camera has captured the remarkable moment a meteorite struck the ground outside a home, scattering dust and producing audible impact sounds—a historic first, according to University ...

The background of the subdial also has stars that are positioned as they were when Apollo 11 reached the moon in 1969. The OMEGA Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite has hour, minute and seconds hands ...