Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using ...

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

A rare lunar meteorite found in Africa sheds new light on hidden volcanic processes that shaped the Moon long after its surface was thought to have cooled. A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Analysis of Northwest Africa 16286 reveals it comes from underneath the Moon, where things were hot for longer than ...

The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia added a 150-gram meteorite, recently seen blazing through the sky, to its collection.

Scientists Found 2 Meteorites That Could Be the First Pieces of Mercury Ever Discovered Elizabeth Rayne July 1, 2025 These 2 meteorites might be fragments of Mercury Anton Petrus - Getty Images ...

Ryugu belongs to the carbon-rich “C-type” family of asteroids, and its rocks resemble rare CI chondrite meteorites that once soaked in water. These samples act like frozen time capsules from the dawn ...

Channel 2’s Audrey Washington caught up with some meteorite hunters in Henry County who think they might have found something.

The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.