Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment from being smuggled to Britain after it was falsely declared as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service said on Thursday.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered an unusual rock on Mars that mission scientists believe may be an iron-nickel meteorite.

A colossal meteorite, first identified in 2014, has been found to have unleashed a tsunami larger than any recorded in human history and boiled the Earth's oceans, according to recent scientific research.