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 ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...

If rocks could talk, this one (NWA 16788) would have a great tale to tell. It was ejected from its own planet by a massive ...

S cientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid ...

Published: May 13, 2025 8:24am EDT China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3).

The decor is a perfect fusion of upscale bar and rock enthusiast’s dream den. Polished agate slices serve as coasters, geode halves function as unique light fixtures, and a massive amethyst cathedral ...

The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details. The finding pins down the nature of the fateful space rock ...

The element is a "genetic fingerprint" of rocks in the main asteroid belt, where the fateful city-size rock was parked before it struck Earth 66 million years ago, Mario Fischer-Gödde, a scientist at ...