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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.