A study of fragments from a Martian meteorite shows that the common practice of using magnets to identify meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks, Katherine ...

NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites from ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a 2.9 billion year-old lunar meteorite. The meteorite, found in Africa in 2000, was examined by a group of scientists in the Earth and ...

BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...

Meteorite chunks from Mars fell over Morocco last summer — the first time in 50 years such an event has occurred, scientists confirmed Tuesday. It is only the fifth time newly fallen Martian rocks ...

Sometime in late May 2026, a meteorite hunter in the United States picked up a freshly fallen space rock, marking the third ...

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn said a man was sentenced to at least nine years in prison for the shooting death of an 18-year-old in 2024. Rhode Island judge rules man should be held in ...

meteorite is made of probably the oldest materials in the solar system. To the amazement of observers, the fireball fell in northern British Columbia in January 2000. The event was photographed, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...