It is a slice from one of the world's largest specimens of its kind. It's thought to have been part of a much larger meteor that weighed up to 1,000 kilogrammes and exploded over the Atacama Desert in ...

The Lyrid Meteor Shower, active from April 16 to 25, 2025, will peak on April 21-22. Shooting Star fans must embrace ...

The intriguing object is a meteorite aptly named Erg Chech 002. It was unearthed in 2020 from the sands of the Erg Chech desert in Southwestern Algeria. From the onset, it has captivated ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

Approximately 50,000 years ago, an iron-nickel meteorite estimated to be 30-50 meters wide survived Earth's thick atmosphere ...

a 790 page book containing predictions on what unusual meteor showers to expect in the next 50 years. Peter is best known for his recovery of fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the Nubian Desert of ...