The high nickel content in the iron indicated that the jewellery was crafted from an 'out of this world' metal.

There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out of reach. You might think that these submerged space rocks would be very ...

New details are emerging about one meteorite's journey from space to Earth that was captured on video last year. Canadian homeowner Joe Velaidum and his dogs narrowly avoided being struck by the ...

The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites. As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in ...

which occurred in the Shergotty achondritic stony meteorite 1. He first regarded this as a new cubic mineral, but later, finding it also in several chondrites and realizing that it formed ...

At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for example, make a thump on the roof of a building. Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites ...

As we know, meteorites can be split into three groups: stony, irons and stony-irons. If you look at the world collections of meteorites, the vast majority are stony meteorites; only 5.5% are ...