Blasted off Mars by a giant impact long ago, the meteorite Teghaza 001 eventually fell to Earth in the Sahara Desert. Now ...

Called Teghaza 001, the rock is from a piece of Mars that formed more than 4.1 billion years ago.

Scientists at the University of New Mexico have played a key role in identifying a rare, 4.1-billion-year-old Martian ...

A man from the United States unknowingly used a meteorite as a doorstop for three decades, believing it to be just a rock. This 10-kilogram piece, found in Michigan, was recently identified as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million. The ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

Researchers demonstrated that specific minerals can shield bacteria from lethal re-entry temperatures, proving that ...

Lunar meteorites — literally pieces of the Moon’s surface that have been displaced into Earth or solar orbit and have burned ...

Only 835 lunar meteorites have been verified, yet scientists say these fallen fragments could show parts of the Moon that spacecraft never sampled.