Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but its latest find is something far more alien to the local bedrock: a dark, ...

Illustration of a fireball passing in front of the moon as it crosses through Earth's atmosphere. Fireball meteors fall on the Earth every day but it's rare to see one in the daytime. Illustration by ...

THOUSANDS of meteorites crash land on Earth every year but the vast majority of them go unnoticed. Most either drop in remote places or burn up to little more than tiny rocks. But on extremely ...