When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

A bright object glimpsed streaking across the sky recently caused quite a bit of commotion as residents in Georgia and other southern states rushed to film a mysterious "fireball." Reports flooded the ...

Across the globe, a small but growing community searches for meteorites, the rocks that survive passage through Earth’s ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

This record-breaking rock had losing bidders seeing red. At one of Sotheby’s Geek Week events, this Martian meteorite smashed through bidding expectations, which were between $2M to $4M. This ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada – the oldest rock formation known on Earth – probably formed at high temperatures and at a ...

A resident south of Atlanta reported that a "rock" fell through the roof and then broke through the ceiling, cracking the home's laminate flooring. The rock is assumed to be remnants of a fireball ...