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 ...

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of a fragment of Ksar Ghilane 022, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 which authors of a new study suspect ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Feb 25, 2025, 03:34pm EST Feb 26, 2025, 12:30pm EST A ...

This post was updated Feb. 28 at 2:10 p.m. Jason Utas has long been in the craft of buying and selling meteorites. But Utas – a graduate student studying earth, planetary and space sciences – said ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a Geo-collection by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). An IUGS ...

Heather Handley works for Museums Victoria Research Institute. She is affiliated with Monash University. Dermot Henry receives funding from Australian Research Council. Oskar Lindenmayer is affiliated ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...