The black, grainy meteorite embedded in rock from a Swedish quarry fell to Earth 470 million years ago. Chemically distinct from any meteorite yet discovered, it is likely debris from a massive ...

Martian meteorite is formally referred to as Northwest Africa 7034 but is also going by the nickname “black beauty.” The exquisite looking dark rock above is actually a first-of-its-kind Martian ...

Collecting meteorites on Earth is often described as the cheapest form of space exploration. Scientists now have over five ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in Antarctica. Scientists recently scooped up one of the heaviest meteorites ever discovered in Antarctica, as well as four other ...

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on geochemical studies that help towards settling ...

A meteorite that landed in northern California last week is much more valuable than scientists first thought. After the meteor was sighted streaking through the sky on 22 April, meteorite hunters ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...

A rock made of a type of crystal never before seen outside a laboratory is most likely a meteorite from the early days of the solar system, geologists say. Two years after identifying the Russian rock ...

An ancient space rock discovered in a Swedish quarry is a type of meteorite never before found on Earth, and likely a remnant of a massive asteroid collision 470 million years ago that sent debris ...

Researchers report on geochemical studies that help towards settling the controversy that surrounds the origin, abundance, and history of water on Mars. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of ...