A fall of rare meteorites in Costa Rica has revealed new details about a similar space rock that fell in Australia 50 years ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Dr. Eric Pyle has been a curator for the museum since 2022, and he is incredibly excited for the Richard F West Meteorite ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earlier this month, a meteorite exploded over Texas. According to a statement from NASA ...

A fragment of the Suizhou meteorite analyzed for this study, indicating the shock veins in which the team discovered bridgmanite together with metallic iron nanoparticles. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Many of the meteoritic fragments around Arizona's Meteor Crater (and also three other meteorites) contain bits of diamond. These inclusions provide information on the history of the meteorites ...

The Canyon Diablo may be one of the oldest objects you’ll ever see on our planet. It’s a meteor fragment that radiometric dating has estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old The Long ...

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Dr Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Sciences Collections at the Museum, sheds light on the secrets the ...

Amateur astronomers have a hunch that meteorite fragments remain from a huge fireball that shot across the Kanto region around Tokyo early June 29 and are asking the public to be on the lookout ...

An amateur astronomer in Denmark has advised the local population in Zealand town Lumsås to check their houses and gardens ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a Geo-collection by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).