For those looking for an accessory a little out of this world, an auction house has an extraordinary offering: meteorites. In an online sale, Christie’s auction house is presenting a portfolio of ...

Hiding inside a piece of an ancient meteorite that is at least 4.4 billion years old lies potential secrets to the history of Mars. The meteorite, known as NWA 8171, contains a mineral that has not ...

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 ...

If you're looking for an out-of-this-world gift this Valentine's Day, an auction house is offering up rare meteorite chunks from the moon, Mars and beyond — for as little as $250. In an online sale ...

Christie's is auctioning a small piece of the Ensisheim meteorite, the first meteorite witnessed as it fell to Earth, in 1492. Credit: Christie's Images A slice of space rock no larger than a credit ...

One of the newest collecting markets deals in some of the oldest objects on the planet. Meteorites are chunks of metal and stone from outer-space objects that fall to Earth. People have collected them ...

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

Christie’s presents Meteorites from the collection of Michael Farmer, the first London online-only sale of rare meteorites. Having travelled the world hunting for meteorites for decades, Michael ...

Faced with this situation, MP Viry suggested striking a happy medium: creating a ‘right of use’ or ‘shared ownership’. The aim? To give the scientific community access to discovered meteorites, ...

Meteorites called Saint-Pierre-le-Viger fell that day and were later recovered. Credit: G. de Reijke. A meteoroid is a small ...

New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite that crash landed onto a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire in 2021. The research, led by Dr. Queenie Chan, ...