dubbed Aletai. Ye Li and Weibiao Hsu at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing and their colleagues analysed the chemistry of some of the meteorites and ...

In 1916, a French consular official reported finding a giant "iron hill" deep in the Sahara desert, roughly 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chinguetti, Mauritania—purportedly a meteorite ...

Regardless of where they come from, once these foreign rocks make it to Earth’s surface, we call them meteorites. But they are much more than just simple rocks from far, far away. They have ...