A Meteorite Crashed Through a Houston Home This Spring

Meteorite falls are rare enough on their own — meteorite falls that actually hit an occupied home are rarer still. On Saturday, March 21, 2026, around 4:30 p.m. Central Time, a fist-sized space rock crashed through the roof of a house in northwest Houston, Texas, following a roughly southwest-to-northeast trajectory.

The rock punched through the roof, passed through the attic, tore a hole in an upstairs bedroom ceiling, struck the floor hard enough to leave a dent, bounced off the opposite ceiling creating a second hole, and finally came to rest on a bed. Remarkably, no one was injured. In the aftermath, researchers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) worked with scientists and community members to recover fragments — about a dozen pieces were eventually found.

Events like this are a genuinely useful reminder of scale: meteorites fall to Earth constantly, but the vast majority land in oceans, deserts, or uninhabited land and are never found. A meteorite actually striking a home, in a way that's witnessed, documented, and scientifically confirmed within hours, is a rare enough event that it draws researchers from across the country — and gives collectors and scientists alike a fresh, well-documented specimen to study.

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Source: Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI/USRA), April 2026.

Written by Nic Scogna, a photographer and mineral collector based in Lexington, Kentucky, and the founder of Crystal Earth Gallery and Kyanite King Minerals. For over 25 years, he has traveled to mineral localities across the U.S. — from Maine to California — personally sourcing the specimens, gemstones, and photographic subjects featured here. When not out in the field, Nic writes about mineralogy, collecting, and the craft of turning raw stone into wearable art.