Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

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 ...

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Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, a mysterious four-by-six-inch object punched through the roof of a New Jersey family’s home, ricocheting around the room before making a sizeable dent in the hardwood floor. Experts ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged of a woman in France who claimed she’d been struck by a tiny, rebounding piece of meteorite while chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee. It would’ve been an ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – New age measurements of lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions have revealed that a surprising number of the rocks show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago, ...

Twin brothers retraced Ripert's steps, went through satellite and survey data to find the reality of 'Iron of God.' ...