Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of fiery light that appeared above his Cantonment home without a sound. "To ...

Ariana Church, 9, was on Penarth beach in Wales with her family when she spotted a mysterious rock - which turned out to be a ...

Illustration of a fireball passing in front of the moon as it crosses through Earth's atmosphere. Fireball meteors fall on the Earth every day but it's rare to see one in the daytime. Illustration by ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar system, researchers have found rare meteorite pieces inside dust brought back ...

Humans are still dreaming about landing on Mars. But periodically, chunks of the Red Planet come crashing down on Earth. Now, one of those rare Mars rocks is heading to auction. The largest Martian ...

Auction house Sotheby's will be hosting its annual Natural History sale in New York City on July 16, which features "...a carefully curated selection of dinosaur and non-dinosaur fossils, meteorites, ...

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 ...

This record-breaking rock had losing bidders seeing red. At one of Sotheby’s Geek Week events, this Martian meteorite smashed through bidding expectations, which were between $2M to $4M. This ...

The mission to land humans on Mars may remain tantalizingly elusive, but pieces of the red planet have been crashing into planet earth for millions of years. The largest-known chunk, a meteorite ...

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...