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 ...

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

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Meteorite hunters flocked to Georgia last week after a meteor disintegrated over the US state, but not everyone is in it for the money.

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

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 ...

It only took Ed Albin a few steps on Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site in Henry County, about ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

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.