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Earliest case of 'death by meteorite' revealed
4-29-2020 |
13
Researchers have discovered official records stating that a man in Iraq was killed by a meteorite back in 1888.
World's oldest material is older than the Earth
1-15-2020 | 2
Scientists have identified the oldest material ever to make it onto our planet - and it even predates the Sun.
Mystery as museum display case lifts on its own
VIDEO 12-22-2019 | 17
Perplexing CCTV footage has emerged showing a display case moving up and down all by itself.
Scientists identify organism that eats meteorites
12-7-2019 | 2
A microbe with an appetite for meteorites has shown that space rocks may be able to carry life across the cosmos.
Chile's mystery fireball 'was not a meteorite'
10-5-2019 | 12
Scientists have been struggling to explain a series of fires sparked by an object that fell over Chile recently.
Extraterrestrial mineral found inside meteorite
9-6-2019 | 16
Scientists have discovered an exotic alien mineral that does not occur naturally anywhere on Earth.
Mystery of black rock found in crater solved
1-19-2019 | 10
Nora and Jean Muchanic had been walking on a New Jersey beach when they came upon something unusual.
Curiosity rover discovers shiny object on Mars
12-2-2018 | 12
NASA's long-lived rover has come across an intriguing object that almost looks like a small gold nugget.
'Doorstop' turns out to be $100,000 meteorite
VIDEO 10-6-2018 | 5
A rock used to prop open a door for more than 30 years has been identified as a rare type of meteorite.
Meteorite found in Africa is older than the Earth
8-7-2018 | 14
Scientists have been studying a meteorite that dates back to a time before the birth of our solar system.
New mineral discovered inside meteorite
8-1-2018 | 8
The new mineral is reportedly harder than diamond and has a never-before-seen molecular structure.
Meteorite filled with diamonds found in Sudan
4-17-2018 | 4
A meteorite that crashed in the Nubian Desert has offered a glimpse of our solar system's earliest days.
Mystery surrounds loud boom over Washington
VIDEO 3-9-2018 | 5
Authorities have been left perplexed following reports of a loud boom and a flash of light on Wednesday night.
Is there an iron throne in the Great Pyramid?
1-17-2018 | 5
Professor Giulio Magli believes that the pyramid may be home to a throne carved from the core of a meteorite.
'Ingredients for life' found in meteorites
1-15-2018 | 10
Scientists have found new evidence to suggest that life could have arisen elsewhere in the solar system.
Huge 50km-long cave discovered on the Moon
10-19-2017 | 20
The Japanese space agency JAXA has announced the discovery of a cave hidden beneath the lunar surface.
Mysterious meteor hissing sound solved ?
3-4-2017 | 6
Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the unexplained hissing sound associated with meteors.
Curiosity discovers metallic meteorite on Mars
1-18-2017 | 10
The rover has come across what scientists believe to be an iron-nickel meteorite on the Martian surface.
Curiosity investigates strange iron meteorite
11-3-2016 | 28
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken a closer look at an odd-looking meteorite lying on the surface of Mars.
Mysterious 'alien' space rock discovered
6-16-2016 | 6
A 470 million-year-old meteorite has turned out to be quite unlike any that have been found before.
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