Asteroid mining has moved from science fiction pitch decks into serious technical studies, but the gap between concept and ...

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through space relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our planet. This is in ...

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate. The researchers tracked ...

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 ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." When you purchase ...

In April 2019, a fiery streak lit up the sky over northern Costa Rica. It wasn’t lightning or fireworks. It was a rock from space, plunging into Earth’s atmosphere at over 14 kilometers per second.

© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. A Henry County man won a lottery of sorts when a space rock — seen for hundreds of miles around as a ...

Heather Handley works for Museums Victoria Research Institute. She is affiliated with Monash University. Dermot Henry receives funding from Australian Research Council. Oskar Lindenmayer is affiliated ...

Multiple fragments of the space rock that tore through a home about 65 miles southwest of Athens were recently analyzed at the University of Georgia to determine its origin. A geologist at the ...