Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

Apollo moon rocks show the Moon had short bursts of strong magnetism, not a long lasting magnetic field, changing how we ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artur Debat / Getty Images An landscape image of the planet Mars. A rock from Mars is going up for auction at Sotheby's and is ...

In the night sky, it gleams like a white jewel, dusting the world below in silver light. Beyond this luminous glow lurks a shadowy land, just as elusive as it is mysterious. When humans first visited ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks in a parking lot and a dozen strangers gathered around. “That’s pretty,” one ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium — a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean ...

A similar rare rock, titanomagnetitolivinit, has also been identified in Taberg, Sweden. The "Shared Magma" exhibit features art made with Cumberlandite pigments and runs through August 2026. We all ...

The largest rock from Mars ever found on Earth is going up for auction at Sotheby’s on July 16 The meteorite, known as NWA 16788, weighs about 54 lbs. and is approximately 15 inches at its widest ...