Stumbling upon a meteorite might seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it’s not as uncommon as you might think. What’s ...

Ben Rider-Stokes receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1 ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display. From right, Elizabeth Zucolotto, ...