South Africa probably has a lot more meteorites that haven’t been identified as such because they don’t stand out where they’ve landed or don’t look unusual enough for people to examine them.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of a fragment of Ksar Ghilane 022, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 which authors of a new study suspect ...