The gaps and stringy fibers in these space rocks sure look like bacteria, and a NASA researcher has caused a stir with claims that they’re fossils of alien life. But as NASA found 15 years ago, looks ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years of hunting yielded nothing – but now twin brothers think they have solved ...

A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our planet may have had the hydrogen needed to form water on its own, without ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

The rocks each weighed about 10 grams, or the weight of two nickels, said John T. Wasson, a longtime professor and expert in meteorites at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Experts ...

Scientists have confirmed that a rock that fell through the roof of a New Jersey home is a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. Earlier this week, police in New Jersey reported that an object suspected to ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the findings from meteorites that originated 1.3 billion years ago on the red ...

A meteorite that crash-landed into a Georgia home earlier this summer turns out to be millions of years older than Earth itself, according to researchers at the University of Georgia.

MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural mountains and sent fireballs blazing to earth has set off a rush to find fragments of the space rock which hunters hope could fetch ...