A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite. This space rock, discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023, is the largest ...

A meteorite that recently gave one Georgia resident quite a shock when it crashed through his roof spent an awful long time making a cosmic journey that ended in a living room. Multiple fragments of ...

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Opening its doors for the first time in March, the Meteorite Museum in Pulpi offers a one-of-a-kind experience. With more than 100 meteorites on display, there is nothing else like it across the ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite? NASA says this: A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such ...