Russia's customs service says a 2.8-ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite was found in a shipping container, labeled as a garden ...

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, which has the scientific name of NWA 16788, had its Martian origins ...

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

In 2015, Australian prospector David Hole searched for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, near Melbourne, with his metal detector. While this wasn't an unusual outing for the prospector, what he ...

The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in Antarctica. Scientists recently scooped up one of the heaviest meteorites ever discovered in Antarctica, as well as four other ...

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the ...

New tools unlock new discoveries in science. So when a new type of non-destructive technology becomes widely available, it's ...

An Austrian forest ranger picked up the rock in 1976. Decades later, scientists discovered the object’s origin story while digging through old photos. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei has written ...

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite ...