John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...

Imagine sipping your coffee when suddenly – BOOM! A sonic tremor rattles your home. That’s exactly what happened to one McDonough resident when a meteorite the size of a cherry tomato punched through ...

The McDonough Meteorite, a 4.56-billion-year-old Low Metal (L) ordinary chondrite, impacted a Georgia home on June 26th, 2024. Eyewitness accounts and social media reports documented a significant ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 million years older than Earth ...

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 ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope! According to experts, it's a meteorite older than Earth. A meteorite "crash landed" in Georgia on June 26. Particles that tore through the roof of a home in Henry ...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to CNN which spoke with researchers who studied it ...

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 ...

Scientists say a meteorite that struck a Henry County home is over 4 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt ...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing.

On June 26, more than 200 people reported seeing a fireball flash through the daytime sky over the southeastern United States. Others simply heard it—the meteor generated a sonic boom that several ...