On Dec. 27, 1984, a Mars meteorite was found in Antarctica. The meteorite, known as Allan Hills 84001, was found in Allan ...

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 ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

THOUSANDS of meteorites crash land on Earth every year but the vast majority of them go unnoticed. Most either drop in remote places or burn up to little more than tiny rocks. But on extremely ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

For years, an Australian prospector guarded a heavy “gold rock” that refused to crack, convinced it might hold a ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

"I was wanting a new bicycle, and I'd got the family hand-me-down, so I wanted to replace that," David said. He bought a ...

Earlier this week, reports emerged of a woman in France who claimed she’d been struck by a tiny, rebounding piece of meteorite while chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee. It would’ve been an ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – New age measurements of lunar rocks returned by the Apollo space missions have revealed that a surprising number of the rocks show signs of melting about 3.9 billion years ago, ...

Earlier this week, a mysterious four-by-six-inch object punched through the roof of a New Jersey family’s home, ricocheting around the room before making a sizeable dent in the hardwood floor. Experts ...

In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...