Tiny Martian rock set to fetch £160K at auction

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 12:00

A small rock from the planet Mars that fell to Earth in a meteorite shower has been put up for sale with a price tag that’s out of this world – 160,000 pounds.

1,000-year-old Buddhist statue made from a meteorite found

Last Updated: Friday, September 28, 2012, 00:00

A rare 1,000-year-old Buddhist statue found by a Nazi expedition in 1938 and made from a meteorite that crashed into the Earth about 15,000 years ago has been discovered.

1,000-yr-old Buddhist statue made from a meteorite found

Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 16:05

This one is straight out of an Indiana Jones adventure!

A chunk of moon for sale at US auction

Last Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 10:40

A New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon.

Meteorites from Mars, Moon up for auction

Last Updated: Monday, September 24, 2012, 13:00

Fragments of Mars, the moon and asteroids that have fallen to Earth will be put up for sale on October 14 in Manhattan.

Moon rock up for auction can fetch upto USD 3,80,000

Last Updated: Thursday, September 20, 2012, 17:09

A piece of lunar meteorite is up for sale at an auction and is expected to fetch USD 3,40,000.

32,000 year old meteorite on public display in UK

Last Updated: Thursday, September 13, 2012, 13:01

The biggest meteorite to ever fall in Britain 32,000 years ago has gone on display for the first time here.

Meteorites and asteroids most-likely sources of Earth`s water

Last Updated: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 16:37

Comets and, or a type of very primitive meteorite called carbonaceous chondrites are believed to be the sources of early Earth’s volatile elements—which include hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon—and possibly organic material, too.

New primitive mineral in Allende meteorite found

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 12:59

Researchers have discovered a new mineral embedded in the meteorite, which scattered thousands of pieces of the space rock across the state of Chihuahua in 1969.

Scientists to probe Nagpur meteorite shower

Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2012, 10:16

A team of scientists from Mumbai will leave for Nagpur Monday to investigate and study the impact of last Tuesday`s large meteorite shower in the Katol region.

Fragments of meteorite behind Tunguska event found?

Last Updated: Saturday, May 19, 2012, 09:03

Now Italian scientists claim to have found chunks of a meteorite, which might have caused the blast, from seismic and magnetic scans of nearby Lake Cheko.