In a groundbreaking discovery, a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has unveiled fresh insights into the moon’s volcanic history. This meteorite, with a unique chemical ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the darkened morning hours of July 6 when Christian Varady saw the fireball falling from the sky, a momentary streak of ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

Dr. Laurence Garvie shows the new addition to the collection of minerals occupying the Interdisciplinary 4 building. This meteorite was broken and shared with a few other institutions to study. (Photo ...

Heritage Auctions will present an eclectic mix of rare meteorites, fossils, and gemstones in a virtual sale that highlights some of Earth’s—and the cosmos’s—most striking natural artifacts. Leading ...

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