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 ...

An Austrian forest ranger picked up the rock in 1976. Decades later, scientists discovered the object’s origin story while digging through old photos. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has written ...

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...

Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada – the oldest rock formation known on Earth – probably formed at high temperatures and at a ...

A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – There’s no way of knowing how many meteorites struck the ground in and around Medina County on Tuesday morning after a 7-ton asteroid exploded over the Cleveland area. It could be ...

On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...