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.

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a meteorite anywhere in Canada is something of a rarity. Last July, the first one discovered in Prince Edward Island was ...

Home video and audio of a meteorite crashing into the sidewalk outside a Canadian man’s home is believed to be the only recording of its kind. “As far as I know, and I’ve asked around, it’s probably ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

A home security camera captured a falling meteorite and the sound it made when it hit the walkway leading to a house in Canada, the incident occurring just moments after the homeowner departed for a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...

ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) - A fireball flashed across the sky on Thursday afternoon, which was visible to residents in several states. The National Weather Service speculates that the object seen was a ...

SPRING, Texas — A meteorite that exploded over the Houston area last month, sending fragments crashing into at least one local home, is now being examined by scientists at Rice University who say the ...

There are close calls, and then there are cosmically close calls. Just ask this Canadian man who was innocently chilling outside his home’s front door, when — moments after moving away to walk the ...