Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

"Nobody knows what this stone is really worth." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A dark reddish-brown stone, picked up from the ...

The mission to land humans on Mars may remain tantalizingly elusive, but pieces of the red planet have been crashing into planet earth for millions of years. The largest-known chunk, a meteorite ...

An Austrian forest ranger picked up the rock in 1976. Decades later, scientists discovered the object’s origin story while digging through old photos. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has written ...

In the coming weeks, a team of researchers and astronomers affiliated with the Astronomical Society of South Africa will collect data from official observatories, with eyewitness accounts, to piece ...

In July 1969, the crew of the Apollo 11 brought back nearly 48 pounds (22 kilograms) of pristine lunar rocks from the most incredible — and expensive — rock-collecting expedition in history. NASA had ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...