A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

The people at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History were nice enough to give a couple members of the Chemistry in Pictures team a behind-the-scenes look at their mineral ...

Image of the Northest Africa 16286 sample obtained using a scanning electron microscope. These are what’s referred to as ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

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.

Stargazers in Türkiye got great views of the Perseid meteor shower. (AP: Emrah Gurel)"The Perseid meteor shower is usually best visible from the northern hemisphere, although we could be lucky ...

Some fragments plummeted into a Henry County home, leaving behind a hole in the ceiling about the size of a golf ball and a crack in a laminate floor.

Perseid meteor shower: See photos of celestial show during peak activity Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, reached peak activity Sunday night.

Meteorites aren't very common in Florida, but there have been documented reports over the last 100-plus years, including ...

A meteor streaks above a destroyed tank from the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, during the Perseid meteor shower on Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. Georg Mortiz/AP ...