It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, ...

Four years into its trek across Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally come across what may be its first ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Feb. 6, 2017, a meteor -- believed to be as big as a small car -- streaked across the sky above Wisconsin. The atmosphere smashed it into thousands of little pieces, which fell in ...

On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...

Outer space is filthy, littered with asteroids, dust. Maybe some sheet music for BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Some of that material enters our atmosphere, and if it makes landfall, it's ...

A rare Martian meteorite, billed as the largest piece of Mars on Earth, captured attention when it fetched millions from an anonymous bidder at a recent Sotheby’s auction. But the move has caused ...

Stowaways in a small car-sized asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan in 2008 have revealed what happened to a mysterious dwarf planet that is dusting Earth with a rare type of meteorites. That dwarf ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

Prices for meteorites range from hundreds of dollars for pieces traded on internet sites like eBay to millions for larger ...

NASA announced Monday that their researchers have found the strongest evidence yet that the components of DNA can be made in space. "People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since ...