Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest piece of Mars to ever make its way to Earth is now also the most valuable meteorite in the world. The large space rock ...

Across the globe, a small but growing community searches for meteorites, the rocks that survive passage through Earth’s atmosphere. Once considered rare curiosities, these stones now attract both ...

A small piece of space history arrived through the roof of a New Jersey house. The meteorite that struck a home in ...

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 ...

A large rock broke off Mars’s surface when an asteroid struck the planet, sending it flying through space. The roughly 54-pound slab then traveled 140 million miles to Earth, where it breached the ...

If you've ever yearned to own something from out of this world, here's your chance. On Oct. 14 in Manhattan, fragments of Mars, the moon and asteroids that have fallen to Earth go up for sale, in what ...

On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

A meteorite recovered immediately upon its fall to Earth on July 16, 2024, is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ...

On July 16, 2024, a fireball crossed the daytime sky of the New York area. The object entered the atmosphere at about 14 km/s ...