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 ...

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

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 ...

A University of Alberta camera captured a photograph of a blazing fireball, which may provide clues to finding a rare meteorite. “If we could find the remains of the meteorite, it would be quite ...

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 ...

Researchers pose with a fragment of asteroid 2024 BX1 they found in Germany. The rock is a very rare type of meteorite called an aubrite. Cevin Dettlaff Just after midnight on January 21, a roughly ...

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 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 ...