Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a piece of space itself. Maybe it's been sitting there for centuries.Or maybe ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

Facebook users flagged a story this week as prospective codswallop, bearing the headline “A rock that was used as a doorstop for the past 30 years turns out to be a meteorite valued at $100K.” The ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Meteorites are the recordkeepers of our solar system. As parts of ...

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, ...