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~ But a battered mailbox netted nearly $83K. NEW YORK -- Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling ...

A 6-foot-long iron meteorite named 'Lebanon' was spotted by Curiosity's cameras poking its head out of the Martian soil. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this photo of an iron meteorite called ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the world's most famous meteorites failed to attract buyers at an auction Sunday, while an ordinary metal mailbox zapped by a falling space rock in 1984 was sold for the ...

A new study suggests a meteorite the size of not one, but FOUR Mt. Everests may have aided the beginning of life on Earth. The mammoth S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, is believed to have caused a ...

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Approximately 3.26 billion years ago, a meteorite roughly 200 times larger than the one responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs crashed into Earth. This cataclysmic event, known as the S2 impact, ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without crashing ...

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On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The devastation ...

It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of ...