Fragments of the Gibeon meteorite that is believed to have fallen in prehistoric times in South Africa are on display at the Hoover Public Library in Hoover, Ala., The larger piece weighs 20 pounds.

A massive 240-kilogram iron meteorite, believed to be 4.6 billion years old, is set to be auctioned later this summer in a ...

An iron meteorite weighing 240 kilos will be auctioned off in Noorwijk at the end of August to help fund a new planetarium in ...

It could have been a more recent city whose history had been lengthened by later mythmakers. Last week Dr. Pritchard told how he found positive proof of Gibeon’s great age.

Long ago, a large meteorite called the Gibeon burst in the Earth’s atmosphere, showering present day Namibia in Africa with tons of interstellar material. For decades, scientists have used the ...

The handiwork of artist Lee Downey, the 46.5-pound skull, titled Yorick, is carved from an iron-based Gibeon meteorite that crashed to earth in Namibia, Africa, some 1,000 years ago.

The Mercurius Planetarium (Sterrenwacht Mercurius) is expected to auction off a 4,6-billion-year-old meteorite to keep the Dutch observatory afloat.

A Tibetan Buddha statue, possibly dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries A.D., was carved from an ataxite, a rare class of meteorite that contains high levels of nickel.

This art is out of this world. A rare collection of stunning, platinum-hued meteorites hit the auction block this week — offering bidders a chance to take home the cosmically cool space rocks.