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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground—just waiting to be picked up. Scientists have ...

The National Museum of the Philippines now has pieces of six of the seven Philippine meteorites. On August 5, the Pampanga, Paitan, and Ponggo meteorites were officially added to the National ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Houston, Beverly R Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower Simmonds, N. A. H Recent investigations of the Tenham meteorite shower ...

Marketed by Sotheby's as "the largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth," the cosmic object was expected to sell for up to $4 million. Measuring nearly 15 inches by 11 inches by 6 inches, the ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...