NASA’sPerseverance rover has made an unexpected find on Mars: a possible meteorite. After five years on the Red Planet, the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...

Collecting meteorites on Earth is often described as the cheapest form of space exploration. Scientists now have over five ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

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Scientists and meteorite hunters are revising their search area after a fireball passed over the Tucson area earlier in the week. Just after 7 p.m. Tuesday, a massive fireball — or meteoroid — entered ...

University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...