The mission to land humans on Mars may remain tantalizingly elusive, but pieces of the red planet have been crashing into planet earth for millions of years. The largest-known chunk, a meteorite ...

Man’s “gold nugget” find in Australia turns out to be a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, offering rare clues to the early ...

A polished sphere fashioned from a meteorite that crash-landed into a dry riverbed in Russia soared again Wednesday, not through space but at an auction house, snagging $130,000 – nine times its ...

The "treasure hunters" found a 1.7 oz. meteorite, up for auction at Christie's. — -- A piece of the meteor that left southeast Michigan residents awestruck on January 16 is up for auction as "the ...

A man searching for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia has stumbled on something far more ancient - a 17-kilogram rock he first believed held a nugget now has been confirmed as a 4 ...