It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of fiery light that appeared above his Cantonment home without a sound. "To ...
A Rare Rock from Another Planet Is Up for Auction — and It’s Expected to Sell for This Many Millions
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 piece of Mars auctioned through Sotheby's. Weighing in at 54 pounds, this is the largest piece of Mars on Earth, and is the most valuable meteorite ever found. Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby's In ...
When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...
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Is asteroid mining actually feasible? Meteorite chemistry data offers new insight
Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...
Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...
Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...
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