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AMS Operations Manager Mike Hankey speaks with 11Alive Meteorologist Melissa Nord the impacts of this rare bolide fireball.
Reports flooded the American Meteor Society of sightings Thursday, June 26, ... Federal authorities end Idaho search for suspect in kids' deaths after finding look-alike hiker.
July's full moon, often called the "Buck Moon," will occur on July 10, 2025.
Results from early chemical analyses of the Winchcombe meteorite and 200 Mars-borne meteors reveal water and ancient amino acids.
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has planned a $1.5 million expedition to Papua New Guinea to find fragments from a meteorite he thinks might be an alien probe.
The meteorite offers a look at a rare carbonaceous chondrite, a high silicate rock containing approximately 2 percent carbon by weight. It is the first of its type to be discovered in the United ...
But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look for: rocks with a strikingly dark surface, known as the fusion crust. Though meteorites fall with the same frequency around the ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not ...