A meteorite that crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from ...

From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their ...

The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism inaugurated the Meteorite Corner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Monday as part of its ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

For over a century, the mysterious meteorite discovered in Oregon’s wilderness captivated explorers, historians, and scientists alike. In 1856, geologist John Evans claimed to have found a massive ...

Last year, in a quiet part of Nigeria near Agadez, someone found a rock in the desert. It turned out to be from Mars. Not ...

Most of these items are stolen from endless colonial wars, as was the case in Iraq where artefacts from Iraq’s museums were stolen by American soldiers when the country was attacked by the United ...

A rock from Mars sat in the sands of the Sahara, untouched and unnoticed, until a meteorite hunter picked it up in Agadez, ...

Natural diamond, seen here, has a cubic packing structure. But a much rarer form of diamond has hexagonal packing and has now ...

Giant footprints have emerged in a field by one of the county’s most famous landmarks. Residents have been bemused at the sight of two enormous footprints and a "meteorite impact mark" in a field of ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the ...