Geochemists have identified a mysterious space rock found in Sweden, and believe it’s a type of meteorite never before seen on Earth. They published their report in the journal Nature Communications.

Two asteroids smashed into one another about 470 million years ago, spilling their cosmic guts out into the solar system. Today, scientists reported that they have found a new kind of meteorite which ...

Meteorites are able to conserve substance that is aged which is older than any rock on Earth, and that is why a dark and heavy rock found by a nine-year-old on a beach in Wales has scientific weight ...

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

The composition of an unusual meteorite suggests that it formed on Earth, spent thousands of years in space, then reentered the atmosphere. But some experts disagree. When you purchase through links ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A giant ...

At first glance, the avocado-size rock that Suzy Kop found in her father’s New Jersey home Monday could have been from any garden. But a closer look revealed jagged edges that exposed a gray-green ...

NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History here has just finished sprucing up its Hall of Meteorites to highlight a new era of sample-return missions and a new museum acquisition, a lunar ...