Regional officials in the southern Urals are offering gold medalists on Feb. 15 at the Sochi Olympics an extra commemorative medal embedded with a fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

The scientists learned that the meteorite formed about 4.5 billion years ago. It was knocked off its parent body, which may have been an asteroid or a Jupiter-family comet, roughly 50,000 years ago.

Your wedding ring, the gold chain around your neck… even the platinum in your catalytic converter. For all of these you can thank a slew of meteorites that pelted Earth around 3.9 billion years ...

A meteorite that fell where California’s gold rush began has triggered a similar gold rush for scientists: to study one of the freshest, most unusual space rocks around.

(04-26) 12:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO-- Searchers near historic Sutter's Mill have discovered fragments of the meteorite that exploded high in the sky at sunrise last Sunday. Petrus Jenniskens, the same ...

The meteorite was likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The brown-colored rock contains iron, nickel and other materials, according to the researchers’ published paper.

Scientists found treasure when they studied a meteorite that was recovered April 22, 2012 at Sutter’s Mill, the gold discovery site that led to the 1849 California Gold Rush.

A Meteorite of Unmatched Value. The Maryborough meteorite, as it was named, is a rare find, weighing an impressive 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds).Unlike the more common gold nuggets found in the ...

A meteorite that crashed down in California's gold country is showing off treasures of a different sort: small diamonds that could tell scientists more about the insides of asteroids. The Sutter's ...

The recently sold bit of Sylacauga meteor, worth 18 times more than gold Christie's At 2:46 P.M. on November 30, 1954, 34-year-old Ann Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama, was napping on her couch.