An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...

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Scientists and meteorite hunters are revising their search area after a fireball passed over the Tucson area earlier in the week. Just after 7 p.m. Tuesday, a massive fireball — or meteoroid — entered ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without crashing ...

University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...