One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

The Meteorite Event in Stardew Valley is a rare occurrence that can be triggered at night. For new players, randomly seeing a ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Dr Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Sciences Collections at the Museum, sheds light on the secrets the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, ...

After search teams managed to recover a substantial amount of the space rock – around 300g – it was named after the village on which it fell. Now a new analysis of the meteorite, published in ...

When a meteorite does survive past our atmosphere, it will usually be a small piece of rock. One might not even notice it as ...

The impact could have kicked up rock deep beneath the earth that eventually spread globally as the meteorite strike sent debris flying. The age of the impact is “statistically indistinguishable ...

Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from nearly 1000 kilometres across, to microscopic dust ...