While studying diamonds inside an ancient meteorite, scientists have found a strange, interwoven microscopic structure that has never been seen before. The structure, an interlocking form of graphite ...

The unusual shock-darkened meteorites came from a fireball over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Scientists exploring Mars have found something unusual — a strange rock sitting in a spot where it clearly doesn’t belong. NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered the odd boulder on September 19, 2025, ...

In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be ...

Roger Lawrence Gibson receives funding from the NRF. Meteorites – fragments of rock that have fallen to Earth from space in spectacularly fiery meteors – have been the subject of public fascination, ...

From Earth to the moon to Mars, the rocky structures of celestial bodies were built using the very same mixture of oxygen. But for 40 years now, researchers have been noticing something strange: ...

Scientists found something unexpected inside a meteorite that hit Earth 50,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While ...