From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their ...

A once-in-a-lifetime auction is set to take place this July as Sotheby’s prepares to sell the largest Mars meteorite ever discovered. Known as NWA 16788, this remarkable space rock could fetch between ...

NWA 7034, a meteorite found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is like no other rock ever found on Earth. It’s been shown to be a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian crust, and acc… ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction Wednesday.

For possibly the first time ever, a meteorite has been captured on video and audio as it struck the Earth, just outside one man's home. Joe Velaidum, of Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada ...

Researchers study remains of meteorite Velaidum, who was curious about the origins of the dark gray powder near his walkway, collected some samples of the remnants and submitted them to a ...

Researchers in Antarctica have recovered a rare large meteorite on the ice. Weighing in at 7.6 kilograms, it is one of the largest space rocks ever discovered on the continent. Antarctica’s dry ...

The trio acknowledges that there are reasonable pro and con arguments for the existence (or not) of the Chinguetti meteorite. On the con side, there is no evidence of an impact crater, although a ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maria Valdes of Chicago's Field Museum about a fresh haul of meteorites she and other scientists collected in Antarctica.

The minerals were discovered from a 70-gram slice of the 15.2-ton "El Ali" meteorite that had been known about by locals for five to seven generations but was only officially discovered two years ago.