Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few ...

Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a ...

A meteorite discovered in Africa could be evidence of a lost protoplanet that once orbited our Sun, say researchers.

"It’s incredible to think there was once a world this large." The post Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert ...

New analysis of the space rock, named NWA 12774, reveals high-pressure mineral crystals that could only have formed inside a ...

For Houstonians who saw it, the fireball meteor that streaked across the East Texas sky last month was a brief, blazing moment of awe. For space researchers at Rice University, it was an opportunity.

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...

A sonic boom shook Boston and the larger New England area with the force of 230 tons of TNT. The source came from outer space ...