The Meteorite Hunters follows Joshua Howgego's quest to discover and better understand pieces of other worlds.

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Land north of Jacksonville could be hiding valuable meteorites that have gone undiscovered for years. Meteorite hunter Joe ...

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to science to be recognized.

But the ones that crash on land can spark debates about legal ownership. Globally, meteorite hunting has become a lucrative business, with chunks of alien rock traded online and shipped between ...

Shawn Meyer of Shakopee last fall found a dense, reddish-black, soccer-ball-sized rock while hunting for agates in a local creek and was sure it was a meteorite. A fragment Meyer had chemically ...

She had recently moved to work at the University of Manchester too and, as an expert on meteorites who had already been out to Antarctica hunting the things, it was obvious that she should join ...

Some meteorites do not need much hunting. In 2019, pieces of one rained down on a village in Costa Rica. A chunk smashed into a kennel housing an alsatian dog whose name, by a happy coincidence ...

Researchers in the United States are using autonomous drones to photograph and then analyse little-known meteorite impact sites, looking for small, well-hidden pieces of space rock. Artificial ...