(MoneyWatch) Get 'em while they're hot! Well, maybe not, in thecase of the sudden mania for meteorite fragments that slammed into a lake near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Friday -- and not just ...

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 ...

CANBERRA, Australia. — For the first time, scientists have been able to precisely map the flight path of an asteroid that landed on Earth and trace it back to its point of origin. The boulder-size ...

If you have some serious cash lying around, a chunk of the moon could be yours. A piece of lunar meteorite is on sale at auction, and experts estimate the final price will tally at keast $340,000. The ...

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...

As an asteroid caught the world’s attention this week, approaching Earth on a trajectory to pass within the moon’s orbit, a senior research scientist who specializes in studying rocks from space was ...

The Fukang pallasite at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Copyright 2014 Symeon Platts/Arizona Board of Regents Cut off a thin slice of ...

Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed through ...

China has successively discovered the meteorite irons at a weight of 28 tonnes, 23 tonnes, 18 tonnes, five tonnes and 0.43 ...

Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...