Scientists later confirmed the rock was not earthly treasure at all, but a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, formed during the ...
In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...
BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...
THOUSANDS of meteorites crash land on Earth every year but the vast majority of them go unnoticed. Most either drop in remote ...
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 ...
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 ...
Traces of rare CI-type meteorites were discovered on the Moon by the Chinese robotic mission Chang’e-6, which returned to Earth with about 2 kilograms of lunar rock samples ...
Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...