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 ...

And It Could Fetch a Whopping $4 Million A piece of Mars delivered from space is soon going to the auction circuit, and is ...

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 ...

The 1.1 kg stone of the Tissint Martian meteorite at the Natural History Museum, London. The stone has a glossy black fusion crust. The fresh interior shows the large yellow/green olivine ...

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 ...

The outer partially melted layer of a meteorite is a so called fusion crust. A description from the year 275 (!) describes it as “dusky black in color, rough, uneven with some edges projecting”.

Meteorites from Mars have fallen to Earth over the ages. See photos of these rare Martian space rocks in this SPACE.com gallery.

The most expensive meteorite, according to the auction catalog, is the Brenham Meteorite Main Mass, and is expected to bring in 750,000 to 1.2 million dollars. The 1,433 pound specimen was found ...

The meteorite is mostly a kind of volcanic rock known as basalt, rich with an olive-green crystal known as olivine. This suggests it once was part of Mars' interior.

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.