Experts have scoured hundreds of kilometres of salt flats deep in the West Australian outback to find pieces of meteorite ...

The Eta Aquariids meteor shower peaks in May of each year, per NASA. These meteors are specifically known for their speed, and Eta Aquariid meteors can travel about 40.7 miles (65.4 kilometers) per ...

Of the few space rocks that fall to Earth ... I knew it could be the sign of a meteorite.” Abba posted the pictures to Facebook and the responses poured in. He sold it for $2,500 to a buyer ...

“I have the expertise that I’ve looked at hundreds, if not thousands of these types of photos,” Herd said, noting that meteorites are coated with a black shell that forms when space rocks ...

In a breathtaking display of nature's beauty, skywatchers worldwide witnessed a rare natural event: the Perseid meteor shower coinciding with the northern lights. The Perseid meteor shower peak ...

An Austrian forest ranger picked up the rock in 1976 ... while digging through old photos. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has written for The Times about meteorites in Antarctica and ...

Meteorites are fragments of space rocks that can pass through the ... with several people sharing videos and photos online.

A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the solar system. A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere ...

Reports online suggested that a meteorite burst through the roof of someone’s house, and pictures posted to Facebook showed rocks on the ground that resembled meteorites. When people start to ...

we’ll bring you photos of some of the minerals that wowed us, some of which are billions of years old. The composition of meteorites, those cryptic chunks of metal and rock that crash down to ...

Meteorites – fragments of rock that have fallen to Earth from space ... if you think you’ve found a meteorite. The initial pictures he sent were very promising; our primary task was then ...