Meteorite

Rare Meteor lights up skies over Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon | WATCH

A spectacular meteor streaked across the skies of Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, and Gurgaon on Friday night, leaving residents stunned and sparking excitement online.

Meteorite older than Earth hits home in Georgia, traveling faster than the speed of sound

A meteorite traveling faster than sound struck a home in Georgia on June 26. Scientists have confirmed that it is older than Earth.

Asteroid collides with Earth, turns into fireball over Russia | WATCH

The European Space Agency said it was a small asteroid around 70 cm in diameter and its collision was harmless. It was spotted in the sky over northern Siberia.

Scientists offer new insights into origin of diamonds in group of meteorites

Scientists have offered new insights into the origin of diamonds in a group of stony meteorites called ureilites. These diamonds most likely formed by rapid shock transformation from graphite during one or more major impacts into the ureilite parent asteroid in the early solar system. 

Scientists study if meteorite impacts help create life on Earth and beyond

A new study, posits that impact craters should absolutely be considered by space agencies like NASA and ESA as top exploration targets, not just for their invaluable post-impact geological records, but also -- and perhaps more importantly -- as prime locations for seeking potential habitats for extraterrestrial life. 

Meteorite-like object weighing 2.78 kg falls from sky in Rajasthan; explosion heard till 2 km

The teams of geologists in the Geographical Survey of India's Ahmedabad and Jaipur office have been contacted for further examination. The object is currently at Sanchore police station.

Moon for sale: Buy piece of one lunar meteorite for just $2.5 million

Christie's Auctions & Private Sales on Thursday announced that one of the world's largest lunar meteorites will be on private sale valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million). The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was probably struck off the surface of the moon by a collision with an asteroid or comet and then showered down on the Sahara desert.

Meteorite impact, not India's Deccan Traps volcanoes, led to dino extinction: Study

Volcanic activity in India's Deccan Traps, previously thought to have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs, did not play a role in their die-off, according to a study which suggests meteorite impact alone led to death of the ancient reptiles.

Scientists identify stardust - oldest material on Earth, contained inside meteorite

According to the information, the town of Murchison in Victoria state witnessed oldest of 40 tiny dust grains, that were trapped inside the meteorite fragments about 7 billion years ago, about 2.5 billion years before the sun, Earth and rest of our solar system formed. 

Dinosaur-killing meteorite instantly acidified the oceans: Study

In a first, researchers have found that the dinosaur-killing meteorite that crashed into the Earth 66 million years ago may have instantly acidified the oceans by causing a release of excess sulphur into the atmosphere and the seas. The researchers, including those from Yale University in the US, said that the impact from the space rock pulverised sulphur-rich rocks, and caused the raining-out of sulphuric acid which may have led to increased ocean acidity.  

Suspected meteorite found in Madhubani brought to Patna museum

Weighing 13 kgs, the suspected meteorite crashed with a loud thud in Mahadeva village under Laukahi police station area on Monday, following which a group of farmers working in a field extracted it from a five-feet-deep hole in the ground – caused by the fall, a release from the Chief Minister's Office said.

Suspected meteorite chunk lands in Bihar's Madhubani district

A celestial object, weighing more than 10 kg and having magnetic properties, landed in a village of this north Bihar district a couple of days ago, a senior official said on Wednesday.

After art auctioning, now meteorites and extraterrestrial bodies open for bidding too

The objects also include Gibeon Meteorites that landed on landed on Earth thousands of years ago when a wandering iron mass slammed exploded and rained down in the Kalahari Desert in Nambia. 

Space rock hit Moon during January's total eclipse

A space rock collided with the Moon at a speed of 61,000 kilometres an hour during the total lunar eclipse in January this year, excavating a crater 10 to 15 metres across, scientists say. 

Large meteorite impact crater found beneath Greenland ice sheet

From casual rock to universal treasure: Michigan man's decade-old doorstep turns out be meteorite worth Rs 74 lakh

The nearly 23-pound hunk of iron and nickel is the sixth largest meteorite found in Michigan, according to the Smithsonian Museum and Central Michigan University.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission to return a piece of meteorite that fell on Earth in 1999

SaU008 will be the first Martian meteorite to have a fragment return to the planet’s surface.

Meteorites brought water to Earth in first two million years: Study

A recent study has found that water may have been brought to Earth by meteorites during the first two million years of birth of the solar system.

Mistook as 'meteor', 'very large rock' turns out to be human waste

As the word spread, crowd gathered on the field to look, with many of them terming it a ‘meteor’ that shooted from the sky.

Aliens target me a lot: Man makes 'bizarre' claims about extraterrestrial creatures

A 50-year-old resident of a village in northern Bosnia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe), near Prijedor claims that he has been attacked by aliens through the meteorite strikes that always happen