It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, ...

A Michigan man recently learned that a rock he's been using as a doorstop is a meteorite worth $100,000. The Smithsonian Museum and Central Michigan University say the nearly 23-pound hunk of iron and ...

It’s every homeowner’s dream: to find out something you’ve had around the house for years is actually worth big bucks. For one man in Michigan, that ended up becoming reality for a rock he used as a ...

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 ...

It’s every homeowner’s dream: to find out something you’ve had around the house for years is actually worth big bucks. For one man in Michigan, that ended up becoming reality for a rock he used as a ...

Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet’s sky. Iron-nickel meteorites are a common ...

ATLANTA (The Weather Channel) – A Michigan man’s 1930s doorstop turned out to be a 22-Pound meteorite worth $100,000. Sirbescu, a geology faculty member at Central Michigan University, has always had ...

From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their ...