“It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, sculpted boulder on the rim of Jezero Crater. In almost four years of traversing ...

Standing alone against the fragmented plains of Jezero Crater’s Vernudden region is a sharply sculpted rock that has commanded the full attention of NASA’s Perseverance rover team. About 80 ...

A 3,000-year-old arrowhead housed in Switzerland’s Bern History Museum was made using iron from a meteorite, scientists have said. Researchers describe the features of the arrowhead and the likely ...

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 ...

A stony-iron meteorite weighing an estimated 25 tons has been found in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China. It might even turn out to be heavier than that, since part of it's buried in the ...