Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...

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 ...

An ancient treasure in Spain contains meteoritic iron, proving early civilizations worked with celestial metals centuries ...

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 ...

1 Hunting for hydrogen Meteorites are chunks of asteroids that fall to Earth, and they come in many forms, from hunks of iron-nickel alloy to highly heterogeneous accretions, known as chondritic ...

Due to a legal loophole, meteorites should, by default, belong to the finder. However, several archaeologists consider the ...

Eh, probably not, you’re smart and skeptical, so you know that while the iron-nickel alloys in meteorites have distinctively different traces of other elements than those found in Earth’s own ...

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 ...

Known as the Treasure of Villena, this horde of brilliant golden treasure from prehistoric Spain reveals ancient metalworking ...

The meteorite's composition is rich in iron and crystallized minerals known as chondrules and it came out to be an incredibly rare specimen. Shockingly, only 17 meteorites have ever been recorded ...

Herd says the rock in question is what’s known as an “ordinary chondrite,” the most common type of meteorite, composed of iron and nickel (hence the magnet) and various other elements includ ...

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 ...