You might think of dinosaur bones when you think of fossils – and specifically fossils you might find at the Field Museum. But the museum reports that 467 million years ago – long before there was any ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --One scientist from the Field Museum made a very cool discovery. She recently returned to Chicago after finding a massive meteorite in the Antarctic. It weighs nearly 17 pounds and ...

The second fragment of the Al Khor meteorite has been found after a four-month search, Sheikh Salman bin Jabor al-Thani, head of Qatar Astronomical Centre, has announced on his X account.

The team of scientists had already combed over miles of Antarctic ice field, ready to turn around at the very end of an 11-day meteorite hunt. Then they spotted something rare. The international team ...

An international research team returned from a December 2022 Antarctic expedition with a 17-pound meteorite. Credit: Maria Valdes / Field Museum Lately, research scientist Maria Valdes has had to ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Sample meteorites (marked with orange flags) as seen by a drone during field tests of a meteorite-hunting system. Drones combined with machine learning could automate the process of recovering ...

Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons -- it's bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it's one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites. That's partly because ...

Tony Whilding, a father from North Whales, found a meteorite worth as much as $130,000 in a farmers field after searching for it for 18 months. Wales news service A Dad has found a 2lb 4oz meteorite ...

Scientists using new ground-penetrating radar technology have detected a meteorite lying below a Kansas wheat field. The tool may have other important applications, such as detecting land mines or ...