Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

South Africa probably has a lot more meteorites that haven’t been identified as such because they don’t stand out where they’ve landed or don’t look unusual enough for people to examine them.

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Space rocks that fall to Earth are ancient time capsules, and scientists who merged two imaging ...

If you've ever seen a shooting star, you might have seen a meteor on its way to Earth. Those that land here can be used to peek back in time, into the far corners of outer space or at the earliest ...

As a space rock slammed into the walkway in front of a Canadian couple's house, it screeched like a sheet of ice shattering. Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly, who live on Prince Edward Island, caught a ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.