Scientists are on an epic treasure hunt for meteorite fragments from a spectacular fireball that lit up the daytime sky over California last month. The space rocks came from a minivan-size asteroid ...

In 2015, while prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, David Hole discovered an unusually heavy, reddish rock buried in yellow clay. Believing it to contain gold, Hole took ...

The space rock, later named the Maryborough meteorite, landed on Earth centuries ago, but lay unrecognized until medical-equipment-level testing at the Museums Victoria identified it as an H5 ordinary ...

WASHINGTON — They came from Mars, not in peace, but in pieces. Scientists are confirming that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower in July.