This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did ...

The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million.

The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through space before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into a home ...

A rare lunar meteorite found in Africa sheds new light on hidden volcanic processes that shaped the Moon long after its surface was thought to have cooled. A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Meteorite Fireball Lights Up Parts of Georgia During the Day, Crashes Into a Home A gift from space has possibly made its presence felt in a Georgia home.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

A rare Martian rock named NWA 16788, which was discovered in Niger in November 2023, has been auctioned in USA and sold for a whopping $4.3 million.

One is that life’s building blocks were delivered on or in meteorites. The other is that those building blocks came together spontaneously via geochemistry in our planet’s early environment.

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.