Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower.

Herd confirmed that they originated from an “ordinary chondrite,” the most common type of meteorite which is comprised of nickel and iron, among other elements. He believed that the specimen ...

As early as 3,000 BC in Egypt, people found iron-rich rocks scattered across the dry landscape and realised they were different. The ancient Egyptians used these meteorites to create high status ...

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash-landed in the Allen Hills of Antarctica, the sawteeth on their blade got all chewed up.

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

the vast majority are stony meteorites; only 5.5% are either stony-iron or iron. But here's the weird thing: If you look just at the meteorites recovered from Antarctica, only 0.7% are iron or ...