NEW YORK – A meteorite believed to have come from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has sold for $93,000 at an auction of rare space sculptures. The 355-pound chunk of iron, which landed on ...

(MoneyWatch) Get 'em while they're hot! Well, maybe not, in thecase of the sudden mania for meteorite fragments that slammed into a lake near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday -- and not just ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

If you have some serious cash lying around, a chunk of the moon could be yours. A piece of lunar meteorite is on sale at auction, and experts estimate the final price will tally at keast $340,000. The ...

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...

Getting your hands on a piece of the Moon is pretty darn difficult for most of us. Some lunar missions have brought samples back from the Moon's surface, but those are typically held by scientists and ...

A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...

Akira Miyake/Kyoto University Given that our species has only existed for a tiny fraction of the lifespan of our solar system ...

As an asteroid caught the world’s attention this week, approaching Earth on a trajectory to pass within the moon’s orbit, a senior research scientist who specializes in studying rocks from space was ...

The Fukang pallasite at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Copyright 2014 Symeon Platts/Arizona Board of Regents Cut off a thin slice of ...