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 ...

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars. It’s not that hard for scientists to ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A giant ...

A man in Australia stored an unusual rock in his home for years, convinced it was hiding gold inside. But when experts ...

CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and ...

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...

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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 ...