BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania - You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...

Three federal entities, including NASA, are reaffirming their commitment to search for Antarctic meteorites, to help learn more about the primitive building blocks of the solar system and answer ...

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Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

Meteorites offer tantalizing clues about what the early solar system was like. But finding them is far from rocket science. Often, researchers simply fan out across a landscape and walk for hours ...