In 1939, a meteorite was unearthed on a Michigan farm and innocently pressed into service as a doorstop for many years. It ...

The specimen came under closer scrutiny after another meteorite fell near Hamburg, Michigan, in January 2018.

For decades, a heavy rock had a simple job on a Michigan farm: keeping a barn door open. Its real story was far more ...

More and more fragments of the Twannberg meteorite are being found in the Bernese Jura; over 2,200 pieces are known, and the rare iron meteorite is highly valuable for research.

King Tutankhamun’s famous iron dagger was made from a meteorite. Now, a hidden crystalline pattern inside its blade has revealed how ancient Egyptian craftsmen worked with metal from space thousands ...

Sientists analysing the space rock have found it contains life-supporting chemistry ...

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Sotheby’s sold the rock at auction last year for $5.3 million. The government has now seized the 54-pound hunk of space debris — the largest meteorite from Mars ever auctioned.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a meteorite.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home held prebiotic molecules and other "building blocks of life," astronomers said in ...