Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, ...

When workers near the Spanish town of Villena uncovered a glittering stash of Bronze Age gold in the 1960s, it was quickly ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth — a 54-pound (25-kilogram) meteorite that fetched more than $5 million at a New York auction last month, setting a world record ...

Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite inside her Alabama home in 1954. She's pictured with attorney Hugh Love (left) and the director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, Walter B. Jones.Courtesy ...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A meteorite that punched a hole i n a Georgia homeowner’s roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself, according to scientist who examined ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...