Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity have been making headlines with their discoveries of organic matter on the Red ...

In addition to the dire wolf skull, a mosasaur skull belonging to the extinct apex predator lizard Tylosaurus proriger is ...

A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth — and when it's heated, it acts even weirder.

By studying the leopard-like spots on rocks from Earth and Mars now, scientists will be ready to analyze returned space ...

A large Martian meteorite found in Niger recently sold at auction. Now, the country is investigating the legality of its ...

The Mastcam-Z instrument, a pair of zoom-capable cameras on Perseverance's neck-like mast, allows scientists to capture ...

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

A meteorite that tore through the roof of a U.S. home in June 2025 has been dated at 4.56 billion years old, making it roughly 20 million years older than Earth itself. The impact occurred on June 26 ...

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite—for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York—has sparked questions over ...

FILE — A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, at Sotheby’s, in ...

A 25-kilo rock from Mars sold for over $5 million (€4.3 million) at Sotheby’s in New York last month. But Niger, where the ...