After a suspected meteor fell in metro Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, meteorite hunters are searching for fragments. But how do you know if you found a meteorite or just a rock?

Channel 2’s Audrey Washington caught up with some meteorite hunters in Henry County who think they might have found something. See what they found, LIVE on Channel 2 Action News at 4:00 p.m.

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

The Aguas Zarcas meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite, surprisingly orbited for 2 million years without collision, challenging the fragile "mudball" reputation.

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate.

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is believed to have been formed when an asteroid, six miles in diameter, struck 65 million years ago, killing off the dinosaurs.

Forget climate change or another global pandemic, scientists fear a giant asteroid that could destroy an area the size of London might be the biggest threat to Earth yet.

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

Meteorite crash landing captured on Ring doorbell Canadian homeowners returned home in July 2024 and found a star-shaped pattern of grey dust spotted on a walkway in front of their home on Prince ...

Historic meteorite crash on Prince Edward Island captured with sound, marking a first in recorded history.