For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests ...

A new study details the findings of two meteorites that likely originated from Mercury and might provide clues about its ...

The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...

Iron meteorites are mainly made of an iron-nickel alloy with a distinctive crystalline structure known as a Widmanstätten texture. Bands are formed by varying levels of nickel. There can be wide ...

Iron meteorites are believed to be fragments of molten metallic cores at the heart of planetesimals, small bodies that existed around 4.5 billion years ago.

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

An ancient iron arrowhead found near Lake Biel in Switzerland, dating back to the Bronze Ages, was likely made of iron that originated from a meteorite, researchers participating in a study by the ...

Meteorites with very low and very low iron contents (so-called L and LL chondrites), meanwhile, were found to come primarily from the inner main belt, as previously speculated.

A recent study by Dr. Albert Jambon and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, revealed the presence of meteoric iron in Early Iron Age ornaments in Poland.

Iron meteorites may be large (hundreds of pounds), but this may actually be a problem. Large pieces are not workable, and you need to separate small pieces (less than 2.2 pounds), ...