Space researchers prize meteorites because they can be 4.6-billion-year-old time capsules.

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Meteorite hunters from states away are heading to Northeast Ohio to find fragments of what shook up St. Patrick’s Day. A fireball lit up skies across the top of the Buckeye ...

WADSWORTH, Ohio — Pieces of a meteorite have now been confirmed in Northeast Ohio following a rare and dramatic fireball that lit up the sky Tuesday morning. The 6‑foot‑wide, seven‑ton meteor streaked ...

(WJW) – A streaking fireball lit the stark, cold morning sky and detonated with the force of 250 tons of TNT, rattling windows and alarming Northeast Ohioans on Tuesday. Bolide meteors, like the one ...

A 7-ton asteroid caused a sonic boom over Lake Erie on St. Patrick's Day morning. The meteor broke apart over Valley City, with fragments potentially landing in Medina County. Meteorites often have a ...