The Old Woman Meteorite is still revealing insights into outer space decades after its discovery Emily Driehaus With more than 148 million specimens and objects, the vast majority of the National ...

The Yale Peabody Museum is now home to one of the oldest and most valuable scientifically significant meteorite collection. Their second donation — this trove from the Planetary Studies Foundation ...

Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite inside her Alabama home in 1954. She's pictured with attorney Hugh Love (left) and the director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, Walter B. Jones.Courtesy ...

GRODNO, 12 February (BelTA) - The Lida Historical and Art Museum displays a special exhibit — a piece of the famous Sikhote-Alin meteorite, which fell to Earth exactly 79 years ago, on 12 February ...

Learn more about Ann Hodges, the first and perhaps only person known to have been struck by a meteorite.

The USGS says they adapted these tips from the University of New Mexico Meteorite Museum. Density: Meteorites are usually quite heavy for their size, since they contain metallic iron and dense ...

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — An afternoon surprise landing of a meteorite in the metro Atlanta caused a buzz across the region. To learn more about the possible space rock that flared through the sky and broke ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June, a piece of rock flew at extremely high speeds and struck a house in McDonough, fireball flashing in the skies over ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered by a local meteorite hunter. The 3-foot meteor splintered in the air in ...