China’s Chang’e-6 mission discovered rare CI chondrite meteorite fragments on the Moon’s far side, revealing new clues about ...

Chinese scientists studying lunar samples brought back the Chang'e-6 lunar mission have identified rare meteorite relics that ...

Dust from the far side of the Moon has yielded an unexpected microscopic treasure we've never seen before. A close ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

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 ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

Geologists in Massachusetts made a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly alter what we know about the Earth's ...

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 ...

A rock from Mars is going up for auction at Sotheby's and is estimated to sell for $2 to $4 million. The rock was found in the Agadez Region of Niger in West Africa in 2023. Finding pieces of Mars is ...