A study of fragments from a Martian meteorite shows that the common practice of using magnets to identify meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks, Katherine ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a 2.9 billion year-old lunar meteorite. The meteorite, found in Africa in 2000, was examined by a group of scientists in the Earth and ...

(WJAR) — A Brown University lab helped verify a meteorite that landed on a Pennsylvania resident’s ice cream container, university officials said. According to university officials, a meteorite ...

BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the Earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.