Last year, in a quiet part of Nigeria near Agadez, someone found a rock in the desert. It turned out to be from Mars. Not ...

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 crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from ...

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the neighborhood.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is known about the planet closest to the sun.

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

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two stones linked to Mercury.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s ...

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 meters in diameter. Discovered near the town of Grootfontein in Namibia in ...