NWA 16788 was unearthed in November 2023 by a meteorite hunter in the remote Agadez region of Niger, a location better known ...

Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west ...

If rocks could talk, this one (NWA 16788) would have a great tale to tell. It was ejected from its own planet by a massive ...

The most massive chunk of Mars ever found on Earth could sell for up to US$4 million in a Sotheby's auction later this month.

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

China launches Tianwen-2 probe to asteroid 2016 HO3 near Mars to collect samples, aiming for groundbreaking results in space exploration and Earth formation clues.

Heavenly questions China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...