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6 meteorites found by ordinary people that ended up being quite valuable
Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...
It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of fiery light that appeared above his Cantonment home without a sound. "To ...
In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar system, researchers have found rare meteorite pieces inside dust brought back ...
Auction house Sotheby's will be hosting its annual Natural History sale in New York City on July 16, which features "...a carefully curated selection of dinosaur and non-dinosaur fossils, meteorites, ...
This record-breaking rock had losing bidders seeing red. At one of Sotheby’s Geek Week events, this Martian meteorite smashed through bidding expectations, which were between $2M to $4M. This ...
A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash ...
The mission to land humans on Mars may remain tantalizingly elusive, but pieces of the red planet have been crashing into planet earth for millions of years. The largest-known chunk, a meteorite ...
Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 25: Thomas Woodham-Smith and sons pose at 'The Brilliant Bugattis' exhibit at the preview of the Treasure House Fair, taking place at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on June 25, 2025 ...
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