The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going on sale and is set to become the most expensive space rock in the world. The 54lb ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth, weighing 54 pounds, is set to go on sale at Sotheby’s New York on July 16, with an expected price of between $2 million and $4 million. Collector Luca Calberi is ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

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

The world's oldest Martian meteorite has been traced to the precise crater where it originated. Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence the Red Planet was ...

Meteorites from a variety of sources have been discovered across Earth's surface for thousands of years, but Mars wasn't suggested as a possible source of this bombardment until the 1970s when ...

The Lafayette is a rare Martian meteorite. In 1931, an unusual stone stored in the geological collection of Purdue University was identified as a pristine example of a rare Martian meteorite - a ...

A Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth 12 years ago contains a "huge diversity" of organic compounds, including one that has never been seen on Mars before, a new study has found.

But in a study published on August 16 in the journal Science Advances, a team from the University of Alberta calculated that around half of the 10 known Martian meteorite subgroups here on Earth ...

Black Beauty has an origin story. The meteorite NWA 7034, weighing about the same as a can of soda, was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. But its true home was Mars. To fill out Black ...

The study details how they found the likely martian origin of the 4.48-billion-year-old meteorite, informally named Black Beauty. Its origin is one of the oldest regions of Mars.