Those on the island of Ireland who may have spotted a giant flare-like streak in the sky were intrigued to discover that it was in fact a rare meteorite, pieces of which could be worth thousands of ...

A US museum is offering $25,000 (£19,986) to anyone who can provide a fragment of a meteorite that landed near the US-Canada border in April. On 8 April, a remote area between Maine and the Canadian ...

A 54-pound (25-kilogram) meteorite – the largest Martian rock ever found on Earth –is now the subject of an investigation in Niger. The meteorite fetched more than US$5 million (£3.71 million) at an ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

In December 1795, ploughman John Shipley was working in a field in the Yorkshire village of Wold Newton when he heard a series of loud explosions above him. As he looked up, he saw something fall from ...

Treasure hunters searching for the valuable meteorite that fell somewhere in Ireland earlier this month are setting their sights on Galway. Wed, 26 Feb, 2003 - 19:34 Treasure hunters searching for the ...

Riches from outer space are pulling meteorite hunters into Morocco’s Sahara Desert, where a fast-growing trade in space rocks is changing remote communities and sparking intense races each time a ...

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It only took Ed Albin a few steps on June 29 to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia. “Oh my God,” he said, ...

The race is on, go grab the nearest metal detector. An Irish person could be in for a cash windfall after pieces of meteorite worth up to €10,000 each fell from the skies at the weekend. Hundreds of ...

There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out ...