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meteorites

Meet the Meteorite Hunters Who Rush In When Space Rocks Crash to Earth

For this community of “space cowboys,” entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts, a fireball streaming across the sky offers big risks and bigger rewards—and new tech is heating up the competition.
Sarah Durn September 29, 2022
Chelyabinsk, Russia

Chelyabinsk Meteorite

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.
dinosaurs

Did the Dinosaurs Die on a Pleasant North Dakota Spring Day?

Fish fossils may put "the single worst day for multicellular life on Earth" on the calendar.
Gemma Tarlach February 23, 2022
disasters

Is an Asteroid to Blame for the Biblical Story of Sodom?

A massive space rock impact event may have inspired the tale of godly wrath.
Christopher R. Moore November 1, 2021
space exploration

A New, Up-Close Look at an Old, Near-Earth Asteroid

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx gives us a startlingly clear view of space rock that probably won't hit us.
Evan Nicole Brown January 29, 2019
nazis

What Does This Alien Minor Planet Look Like?

A peanut? Or maybe a bowling pin?
Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2019
volcanoes

Instead of Hot Lava, These Cosmic Volcanoes Spew Ice

The dwarf planet Ceres is studded with cryovolcanoes.
Jessica Leigh Hester September 17, 2018
Mill Valley, California

B612 Foundation

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.
science

The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Comet

The key to solving the puzzle was meteor showers.
Kelsey Kennedy October 2, 2017
science

Hubble Spotted a Strange New Object in Our Solar System

It's kind of a comet and kind of an asteroid that orbits itself, and it could tell us something about early Earth.
Kelsey Kennedy September 21, 2017
science

Found: The Oldest Known Family of Asteroids in the Solar System

Over time, they drift apart.
Erik Shilling August 4, 2017
geology

The First Asteroid We Knew Would Hit Earth in Advance

When 2008-TC3 crashed into the Sudanese desert, not everyone was surprised.
Cara Giaimo June 30, 2017