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

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the Earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s atmosphere and lands as a meteorite. Scientists have studied these fallen rocks ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without crashing ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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, ...