The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going on sale and is set to become the most expensive space rock in the world. The 54lb ...

Micrometeorites are thought shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells form ...

UCF Professor Ramses Ramirez believes human exploration can greatly accelerate the search for life. "A human can react ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests ...

The world's oldest Martian meteorite has been traced to the precise crater where it originated. Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence the Red Planet was ...

Surprisingly, roughly 200 of these meteorites were launched from just five impact craters situated in the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic regions of Mars. “It is really amazing if you think about it.

A Martian meteorite known as Amgala 001, found in Western Sahara in 2022. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons/Steve Jurvetson) The team combined high-resolution simulations of impacts into a Mars ...

Meteorites from a variety of sources have been discovered across Earth's surface for thousands of years, but Mars wasn't suggested as a possible source of this bombardment until the 1970s when ...

The Lafayette is a rare Martian meteorite. In 1931, an unusual stone stored in the geological collection of Purdue University was identified as a pristine example of a rare Martian meteorite - a ...

But in a study published on August 16 in the journal Science Advances, a team from the University of Alberta calculated that around half of the 10 known Martian meteorite subgroups here on Earth ...

A Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth 12 years ago contains a "huge diversity" of organic compounds, including one that has never been seen on Mars before, a new study has found.