A new examination of a lunar meteorite revealed a mineral that could change our understanding of water on the moon, showing its crust was water-rich around 4 billion years ago.

Sotheby’s will auction massive Martian meteorite NWA 16788, and is accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC bids for a piece of ...

AMMAN - A rare lunar meteorite has been discovered in the Wadi Rum desert, marking the first confirmed find of its kind in Jordan and the Middle East. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

The lunar meteorite in Mesick's ring was found in Algeria in 2022. "Came here from the moon," said Coats, "just so we can crush it up and put it into this customer's ring." ...

The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

"We give a definitive answer that meteorite impact vaporization is the dominant process that creates the lunar atmosphere." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When micrometeoroids strike the lunar surface, they become superheated and vaporize into atoms. Some of those atoms hover above the Moon’s surface, creating its tenuous atmosphere.

"Meteorite impacts generate high temperatures ranging from 2,000-6,000 degrees Celsius (3,600-10,800 degrees Fahrenheit). These extreme temperatures melt and vaporize rocks on the lunar surface ...

Regardless of its backstory, the Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite, at $17,100, certainly provides a fancy foil to the sub-$400 MoonSwatch Mission to Moonphase watches.The average person probably ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, ... according to the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

AMMAN — A rare lunar meteorite has been discovered in the Wadi Rum desert, marking the first confirmed find of its kind in Jordan and the Middle East. The meteorite, confirmed to have originated from ...