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

Robert Ward, a meteorite collector in Arizona, is among a growing number ... And the meteorites found here, he said, have much to teach us about the universe – and our place in it.

If there's life in the solar system beyond Earth, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems a logical place to find it. A new study ...

This 146 gram stone is on loan to the Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies from Michael Farmer (Arizona State University ... camera videos of the meteor and found that it entered the Earth ...

Lucian of Samosatam was probably the first to write about travel to outer space and aliens in his 160 AD work: "A True Story" ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...