NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-sized object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars. To figure out exactly what ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-size object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars. To figure out exactly what ...

INVESTIGATIONS have been conducted in this laboratory during the last few years on the structure of artificially prepared iron-nickel alloys in the iron end of the equilibrium diagram, and during the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found a meteorite as it was trucking across Mars last week. The iron-nickel meteorite, nicknamed Cacao, is about a foot across and clearly made up of different stuff than its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA'sOpportunity Mars rover has completed its inspection of "Heat Shield Rock" -- aniron ...

NASA's Curiosity rover spotted a strange rock on Mars, so of course, it shot it with a laser. The intrepid, car-sized robot found an egg-shaped, golf ball-sized shiny rock that looked unlike any other ...

For 40 years, University of Minnesota professor Calvin Alexander has been contacted by people who think they've found meteorites. They call, write, and come in to the lab of the curator of meteorites ...

Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example, that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. The extinction of the ...