They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

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 ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth, weighing 54 pounds, is set to go on sale at Sotheby’s New York on July 16, with an expected price of between $2 million and $4 million. Collector Luca Calberi is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, also known as ALH84001, was discovered in the Antarctic in 1984. Initially, it was treated like any other meteorite. It wasn’t until a decade later that scientists ...

Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the findings from meteorites that originated 1.3 billion years ago on the red ...

Black Beauty has an origin story. The meteorite NWA 7034, weighing about the same as a can of soda, was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. But its true home was Mars. To fill out Black ...