How did researchers determine the meteorite's age? Krestianinov and his colleagues analyzed lead and uranium isotopes in Erg Chech 002 and determined its lead-isotopic age as about 4.566 billion ...

Herd added that when the meteorite, which likely weighed around one kilogram, first entered the atmosphere, it was traveling about 50 times the speed of sound, or 60,000 kilometers per hour.

Meteor Crater in Arizona is considered the best-preserved meteorite impact site, made by an approximately 150-foot-wide meteorite about 50,000 years ago. Could a person be hit by a meteorite?

It’s a different kind of rock music. Doorbell cameras aren’t just for busting home invaders and porch pirates. A Ring camera captured the sound of a meteorite crash-landing near a house in ...

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 ...

Joe Velaidum's home security camera captured the instant a meteorite smashed against his home's brick walkway. The video is thought to be the first recorded sound of a meteorite's direct impact.

For possibly the first time ever, a meteorite has been captured on video and audio as it struck the Earth, just outside one man's home. Joe Velaidum, of Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada ...

It is rare to find a meteorite, and to capture its fall to Earth, but, Dr. Herd said, “when it literally ends up on your front doorstep, it’s obviously a lot easier.” Amanda Holpuch covers ...

In 1916, a French consular official reported finding a giant "iron hill" deep in the Sahara desert, roughly 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chinguetti, Mauritania—purportedly a meteorite ...

Toledano & Chan’s Brutalist-inspired wristwatch is made from part of the Muonionalusta meteorite, which was scattered around northern Scandinavia by the force of its collision with Earth.

A meteorite from Mars has a history of interacting with water, probably as a result of volcanic activity melting ice on the Red Planet over 700 million years ago. Skip to main content.