If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces and ...

Moscow — Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen ...

Moscow (AFP) – Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge ...

Toward the beginning of 2025, Böker dropped its drop-dead gorgeous BRLW Meteorite Damast pocket knife to much fanfare. Despite a robust release calendar, it remained among the German brand’s most ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

This story has been updated to correct the date of the meteorite sighting. An unconfirmed meteorite lit up the sky over Michigan Sunday evening, Dec. 7, according to the Michigan Storm Chasers, a ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For generations a massive iron meteorite sat in the Somali desert, becoming a landmark where children played and herders ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...