A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This ...

The largest rock from Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction at Sotheby’s on July 16 The meteorite, known as NWA 16788, weighs about 54 lbs. and is approximately 15 inches at its widest ...

Elmore County man Joe Champion claims he recently discovered a rare meteorite in a load of soil and rock he was sorting through. Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are ...

Meteorite hunter Robert Ward has donated a piece of one of the rarest meteorites ever found to the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to possibly help answer questions regarding the earliest forms of ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

The rarest rocks on Earth are actually chunks of other planets, and Tucson's Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase is ground zero for the meteorite-obsessed. Meteorites - space rocks that survived a fiery ...

There are close calls, and then there are cosmically close calls. Just ask this Canadian man who was innocently chilling outside his home’s front door, when — moments after moving away to walk the ...