"Meteorites are often denser than Earth rocks, contain metal, and are magnetic. We can also look for things like a fusion crust that forms during entry into Earth's atmosphere. Finally, we can use ...

Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space ...

It is also offering to buy any other pieces of meteorite rock recovered from the 8 April event. Those who believe they have found a meteorite rock can bring it to the museum for testing.

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars ...

Part of a giant meteorite from outer space has been safely recovered from a Russian lake, online news website RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. As scuba divers tried to raise the rock from the ...

A team of scientists at UC Santa Cruz in the US are baking meteorites like Hot Pockets to answer questions about how planets are formed. They roasted three samples of space rocks that have the ...