In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found. Almost 300g of a very rare ...

Heritage Auctions will present an eclectic mix of rare meteorites, fossils, and gemstones in a virtual sale that highlights some of Earth’s—and the cosmos’s—most striking natural artifacts.

The meteorite is made up of six fragments, with the largest piece weighing about 3kg A meteorite that is one of the biggest pieces of the Moon ever put up for sale is being auctioned online by a ...

"Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, ...

An Australian man discovered a rare meteorite he thought was an ordinary rock. In 2015, David Hole was hunting for gold in Maryborough Regional Park when he found a stone harder than most.

The meteorite that crashed to Earth near Berlin in January is about 4.5 billion years old and belongs to the rare class of aubrites, scientists wrote in an article published earlier in the week in ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

Now, locals are starting to recover leftover meteorite fragments — and scientists say they may contain the “building blocks of life.” An extremely rare meteorite — found on an unassuming ...

In February last year Christie’s held an online-only auction called Deep Impact: Martian Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites. The auction “shattered records” totalling $4,351,750 (£3,227,801 ...

See an astonishingly rare meteorite, which was recovered in the UK after landing in the driveway of a house in the town of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. The meteorite will give scientists at the ...

This image shows the edge of a slice of the Sutter's Mill meteorite. It is part of a series of images used to build an understanding of changes that might have occurred within the meteorite during ...

As someone who gave up their day job to search for meteorites full-time, he said there is no feeling quite like holding a rare rock from space. His hunts so far have taken him as far as France ...