BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near the border between the United States and Canada, CNN ...

So the naming and classification of meteorites is a very precise science, and it has to be done a certain way and it’s always a thrill for us, when something that we have found or recognize becomes part of the permanent scientific literature on meteorites. (Nintzel) And you found your first meteorite here in Arizona. (Notkin) I did.

DAKAR, Senegal — It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth — a 54-pound meteorite that fetched more than $5 million at a New York auction last month, setting a world record. But in the West African nation of Niger, where the rusty-red rock ...