Scientists are asking meteorite hunters to refrain from using magnets to test the authenticity of their finds because this can destroy the specimen's magnetic memory, erasing valuable information ...

A US museum is offering $25,000 (£19,986) to anyone who can provide a fragment of a meteorite that landed near the US-Canada border in April. On 8 April, a remote area between Maine and the Canadian ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but ...

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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 ...

A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. Experts hoping to study the meteorite are now offering a financial reward to anyone who can recover a ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled across another strange discovery in the Jezero Crater on Mars. While exploring the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

Researchers combing the surface of Antarctica for space rocks hit the jackpot by finding five meteorites in the tundra, one of which weighs almost 17 pounds. The expedition team found the meteorites ...

We would like to test our findings on these ancient rocks to see if, as we suspect, our model is more widely applicable.” Dr Johnson is affiliated with The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), ...