NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but its latest find is something far more alien to the local bedrock: a dark, ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash ...

Department of Geological Sciences that used Martian meteorite to understand the volcanic process on Mars has been published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment. Martian ...

BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...

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

In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

Traces of rare CI-type meteorites were discovered on the Moon by the Chinese robotic mission Chang’e-6, which returned to Earth with about 2 kilograms of lunar rock samples ...