A Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica has revealed features that suggest water once flowed through it. The findings ...

Scientists have successfully used advanced CT scanning techniques to study one of themost famous Mars meteorites, NWA 7034, also known as Black Beauty. This breakthrough allows researchers to explore ...

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 ...

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...

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

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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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration is 90% sure the space rock that landed in southeast Michigan on Tuesday evening, causing an earthquake and some anxious moments, was a stony meteorite ...

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 ...