Perseverance rover spots mysterious 'visitor from outer space' rock on Mars surface after 4 years

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...
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Perseverance’s Laser Confirms Shiny Martian Rock Likely a Meteorite

Four years into its trek across Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally come across what may be its first ...

NASA’s Perseverance Has Seen a Lot of Rocks—But Not One Like This

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

NASA discovers rock on Mars that shouldn’t be there — and scientists think it’s a visitor from outer space

NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to ...
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Meteorite Mystery on Mars: Perseverance’s First Iron-Nickel Find

It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, ...

Alien visitor on Mars? NASA finds 'unusual' 31-inches wide rock on red planet that didn't belong there, scientists stunned

NASA's Perseverance rover found a peculiar rock on Mars. Its composition suggests it may have originated from beyond our ...
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NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Discovers "Alien Rock" on the Red Planet

A rock that is described as "unusually shaped" and "not meant to be on the surface of Mars" has nevertheless made its way to ...
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First known Boomerang Meteorite? This Space Rock Might Have Come From... Earth

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
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A Rare Rock from Another Planet Is Up for Auction — and It’s Expected to Sell for This Many Millions

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 ...
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Winchcombe meteorite: space rock may reveal how water came to Earth

A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet's water come ...
BBC

Meteorite hunters race to find rock for $25k reward

A US museum is offering $25,000 (£19,986) to anyone who can provide a fragment of a meteorite that landed near the US-Canada border in April. On 8 April, a remote area between Maine and the Canadian ...
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Burned By Meteorites: Beware Rock-Bottom Bargains

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...