Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

A new study details the findings of two meteorites that likely originated from Mercury and might provide clues about its ...

A rare meteorite that traveled 36 million miles on its journey to Earth could become the most expensive space rock ever sold ...

A piece of Mars delivered from space is soon going to the auction circuit, and is supposedly going to demand a hefty price.

However, other scientists think that there are very few olivine-rich meteorites in the asteroid belt, and too many pallasite meteorites for them all to have come from a core-mantle boundary. These ...

This meteorite is dominated by the mineral olivine. ... Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came ...

Meteorites are composed of materials such as iron-nickel alloys, silicate minerals, and sometimes semi-precious stones like olivine. They are generally classified into three types: iron meteorites ...

This could be one of the biggest auctions of extraterrestrial artefacts, a piece of rock that came from another planet - Mars. The largest Martian ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Joe Velaidum's home security camera captured the instant a meteorite smashed against his home's brick walkway. The video is thought to be the first recorded sound of a meteorite's direct impact.

These meteorites are extremely rare and can be distinguished by the presence of large olivine crystal inclusions in the ferro-nickel matrix, often with a green hue.