The study, led by Professor Katherine Joy from the University of Manchester, used radiometric dating techniques to analyze a lunar meteorite, NWA 2995, believed to have originated from the SPA basin.

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

The doghouse and the meteor that hit it are up for auction as part of Christie's "Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar, and Other Rare Meteorites" sale Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

The team analyzed fifteen Martian and lunar meteorites in the laboratory and was thus able to calculate their radon emissions. The results show that these meteorites release less radon than most ...

Samples of rock from the moon, brought to Earth by lunar meteorites and the Apollo moon landings, can be used to understand the history of the Moon and its relationship to the Earth through the ...

And NWA 15915 fits this atypical description. To better understand the origins of this meteorite, Mitchell and her team used ... Mitchell reported the results at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences ...

This study investigates the chemical variations within mineral phases in the Martian meteorite sample North West Africa (NWA) 4468. Meteorites are the only samples of Martian rocks that can be studied ...

Pupils from Lincoln Gardens Primary School in Scunthorpe got their hands on samples of meteorites - including a lunar meteorite - during a series of out of this world science lessons last week.