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

Facebook users flagged a story this week as prospective codswallop, bearing the headline “A rock that was used as a doorstop for the past 30 years turns out to be a meteorite valued at $100K.” The ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Meteorites are the recordkeepers of our solar system. As parts of ...

A man out hunting for gold in an Australian park picked up what he thought was a promising nugget, only to discover years later that he had been storing a relic from the birth of the Solar System. The ...

January 31, 2023 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Have you found a weird looking rock when out hiking and thought, “I bet that came from outer space!” I have.

Roger Lawrence Gibson receives funding from the NRF. Meteorites – fragments of rock that have fallen to Earth from space in spectacularly fiery meteors – have been the subject of public fascination, ...

A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...