The Old Woman Meteorite is still revealing insights into outer space decades after its discovery Emily Driehaus With more than 148 million specimens and objects, the vast majority of 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 ...

A 22-pound rock that has been propping open a door in Michigan for decades turns out to be a meteorite valued at $100,000, according to Central Michigan University. Mona Sirbescu, a CMU geology ...

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars. It’s not that hard for scientists to ...

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

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