A few of the orange-colored carbonate globules found in ALH84001. This 1.6-ounce (46-gram) meteorite, a part of the Tissint meteorite that landed in Morocco in July 2011, fetched $43,750 at a public ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found a possible meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet. Perseverance spotted an unusual "sculpted, high-standing" rock nestled among "low-lying, flat and ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAKAR, Senegal — It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth — a 54-pound meteorite that fetched more than $5 million at a New York auction last month, setting a world record. But in the West ...

Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth as part of a mysterious daytime fireball in late June missed striking a man near Atlanta, a researcher has found. By Adeel Hassan More than 50,000 ...

Millennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, streaking overhead, born of an ancient collision of asteroids. The meteorite landed, probably with more of a thud than a boom, in a river ...