Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The huge specimen weighing about 2.8 tons is believed to have come from the Aletai meteorite, one of the largest known iron ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into smuggling (Handout) (Handout/Federal Customs Service of Russia/AFP) Russian ...

The 'discreet' fragment of Aletai, weighing more than 2 tons, comes from one of the largest iron meteorites known on Earth.

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

Moscow — Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen ...

Confirmed locations of meteorite finds. Numbers indicate meteor altitude in km. Image released Nov. 6, 2013. [Read the Full Story Here] Meteorite fragments recovered from the ice-covered Lake ...

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen weighing more ...