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

The meteorite's long bright trail looked like a fireball streaking across the sky on its way to the Eastern Townships ...

A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered ...

Meteorite hunters flocked to Georgia last week after a meteor disintegrated over the US state, but not everyone is in it for ...

Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...

It only took Ed Albin a few steps on Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site in Henry County, about ...

Hundreds of people descended on Georgia after a meteor blazed across the sky last week. Enthusiasts collect and sell celestial debris from the event for up to $100 per gram.

Magnetic: Since most meteorites contain metallic iron, a magnet will often stick to them. For “stony” meteorites, a magnet might not stick, but if you hang the magnet by a string, it will be ...

As Mars’ magnetic field faded and its atmosphere thinned, most surface water vanished. Some escaped to space, some froze in polar caps, and some was trapped in minerals, where it remains today.

Due to their high concentrations of iron and nickel, most meteorites are magnetic to some degree, so testing your rock’s attraction to a magnet is also helpful.

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Tiny but beautiful meteorites fall to Earth every single day – here's how to find them Meteorites are time capsules from the birth of the solar system. How best to find and interpret them?