University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...

A mysterious fireball blazed across the sky in broad daylight on June 26, sparking hundreds of siting reports in Georgia and ...

On a clear June day in Georgia, a blazing fireball suddenly fell out of the sky over the Atlanta metro area. The source of this spectacle was a 1-ton meteor that exploded in mid-air, sending a cherry ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for ...

Last June, a small meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in McDonough, Georgia, before landing in the living room. This fragment of space rock, now officially named the McDonough meteorite, has ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Asteroids offer valuable windows into the early solar system, given that they are remnants of planetary embryos that failed to form into planets. A recent analysis of samples from Ryugu offered ...

Zucolotto and Tosi flew in from Rio de Janeiro, more than 1,600km away. They met a local bar owner who presented another specimen, a rare chondrite that was black with conical grooves and burnt-orange ...