NASA’sPerseverance rover has made an unexpected find on Mars: a possible meteorite. After five years on the Red Planet, the ...
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 ...
As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called fireballs—are caused by space rocks, or meteoroids, entering Earth's atmosphere at ...
A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds ...
On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...
Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...