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DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how you can check your rain gutters for micro meteorites!
In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.
Magnetic: Since most meteorites contain metallic iron, a magnet will often stick to them. For “stony” meteorites, a magnet might not stick, but if you hang the magnet by a string, it will be ...
Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...
The meteorite's long bright trail looked like a fireball streaking across the sky on its way to the Eastern Townships ...
It only took Ed Albin a few steps on Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site in Henry County, about ...
Meteorite hunters flocked to Georgia last week after a meteor disintegrated over the US state, but not everyone is in it for ...
What sustains moon's fragile exosphere? Being 'bombarded' by meteorites, study says The moon can thank the longevity of its fragile exosphere to the space rocks that have reliably "bombarded" it ...
Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.
Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.