Collecting meteorites on Earth is often described as the cheapest form of space exploration. Scientists now have over five ...

Scientists are asking meteorite hunters to refrain from using magnets to test the authenticity of their finds because this can destroy the specimen's magnetic memory, erasing valuable information ...

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...

A US museum is offering $25,000 (£19,986) to anyone who can provide a fragment of a meteorite that landed near the US-Canada border in April. On 8 April, a remote area between Maine and the Canadian ...

A treasure hunt has been started, and if one person finds a big meteorite that recently crashed to Earth, a museum is willing to shell out $25,000. The Associated Press reported that a meteorite was ...

In a remarkable development that challenges our understanding of life’s origins, researchers have identified human-like DNA ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

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 ...

In a story that's beginning to go viral, a French woman describes how she was injured when she was struck by a rock from space. But experts suggest all is not what it seems with this meteorite tale.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In July, Joe Velaidum, who lives on Prince Edward Island, a Canadian province in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, noticed a small fragment of space rock on his property after walking his dogs. This week, he ...