Sometime in late May 2026, a meteorite hunter in the United States picked up a freshly fallen space rock, marking the third ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite? NASA says this: A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such ...

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A slice of the El Ali meteorite, now housed in the U of A's Meteorite Collection, contains two minerals never before seen on Earth. A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that ...

The mineral was discovered in Pakepake 005, the first lunar meteorite found in China. The 44-gram spherical stone, with a ...

So you think you've found a meteorite. Rachel Micander, a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering and a geologist for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, shares ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Two minerals never seen on Earth before were discovered in a gigantic meteorite weighing 16.5 tons, offering researchers possible clues about how the space rocks are formed. The new minerals were ...

Strange, dark-veined meteorites rained down on Earth when a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013. The origin of these unusual meteorites has remained a mystery, but now, ...