A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for ...

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Based on video of the fireball, astronomer Mark Hammergren thinks the meteoroid—the space rock that causes the meteor, or fireball—may have been up to six feet (1.8 meters) wide and weighed ...

The iron meteorite that fell on private property in Sweden in November 2020. Its recovery has led to a court battle over who owns the rock. Credit ...

Home; Science; the explainer Winchcombe meteorite: space rock may reveal how water came to Earth. New analysis of its violent journey confirms scientific theories on the origin of our planet's H2O ...