meteorites

Rocks from a rare fireball have landed in an area across the Maine-Canada border, and a museum will pay people to find them.

A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock

12:07pm April 13, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is looking for meteorites from a rare fireball event near the Maine-Canada border. It's willing to pay anyone who can find them.

A scenic view of a lake against the sky at night in British Columbia. Earlier this month, a resident of Golden, B.C., woke up to the sound of a crash and found that a meteorite had landed in her bed.

A meteorite crashes through a home in Canada, barely missing a woman's head

1:41pm October 14, 2021

by Scott Neuman

British Columbia resident Ruth Hamilton had a rude awakening earlier this month when a large meteorite plunged from space, through her roof and landed in her bed.

The Pacific Ocean from space. In both liquid and frozen form, water covers most of the Earth's surface, and there's been a debate among scientists about where all the water originated.

Water, Water, Every Where — And Now Scientists Know Where It Came From

5:41pm August 27, 2020

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Some unusual meteorites suggest that Earth got its water at its start, rather than forming dry and being watered by comets later on.

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The meteorite is 3.1 by 2.6 by 0.8 inches large. It is surrounded by a gray reduction halo, in the otherwise red limestone. Oxygen was consumed when the meteorite weathered on the seafloor. The coin in the image has a diameter of just under 1 inch.

Scientists Say They've Unearthed A Completely New Kind Of Meteorite

6:59pm June 15, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Scientists say that in a Swedish quarry, they've uncovered a meteorite unique among the 50,000 known on Earth today. They say it could hold clues about the history of the solar system.