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 ...

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 ...

Customs officers in Russia say they stopped a 2.8 ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite from leaving the country after smugglers tried to ship it to the United Kingdom disguised as a simple garden ...

You might expect customs agents at a major seaport to find smuggled weapons, narcotics, or stolen antiquities. You probably don’t expect them to pry open a wooden shipping crate and find a ...