Heritage Auctions will present an eclectic mix of rare meteorites, fossils, and gemstones in a virtual sale that highlights some of Earth’s—and the cosmos’s—most striking natural artifacts.

In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found. Almost 300g of a very rare ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

The 3.5-kilogram (7.7-pound) stone she found in a stream bed near her ... in fact, an exceptionally rare and valuable piece ...

T he meteorite that crashed to Earth near Berlin in January is about 4.5 billion years old and belongs to the rare class of aubrites, scientists wrote in an article published earlier in the week ...

The meteorite is made up of six fragments, with the largest piece weighing about 3kg A meteorite that is one of the biggest pieces of the Moon ever put up for sale is being auctioned online by a ...

The so-called Brenham meteorite, found in Greensburg in 2005, is the largest of its kind and is filled with natural, extraterrestrial gemstones. It has an estimated value of 30,000 to 00,000.

Now, locals are starting to recover leftover meteorite fragments — and scientists say they may contain the “building blocks of life.” An extremely rare meteorite — found on an unassuming ...

Initially mistaking it for a gold nugget, experts later identified it as an H5 chondrite meteorite, offering rare insights into the solar system's formation. This significant scientific find ...

The discovery of Libyan Desert Glass in King Tutankhamun's tomb unveils a fascinating link between ancient Egyptian artistry and a rare celestial ... suggest that a meteorite, traveling at high ...

See an astonishingly rare meteorite, which was recovered in the UK after landing in the driveway of a ... In December 1795, ploughman John Shipley looked up from his work on the Wold Cottage estate in ...

In February last year Christie’s held an online-only auction called Deep Impact: Martian Lunar and Other Rare Meteorites. The auction “shattered records” totalling $4,351,750 (£3,227,801 ...