Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

Antarctic meteorites are especially useful to scientists ... In the past, this melt would have been very rare. But with rising global temperatures due to human-caused climate change, meteorites ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

Antarctica may be home to hundreds of thousands of meteorites — but finding them is extraordinarily difficult. . | Credit: Stocktrek Images/Getty Images There are hundreds of thousands of ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan houses 17,400 meteorites.

After studying the object, they announced Thursday that it was a rare stony chondrite meteorite. "We are excited to be able to confirm that the object is a true chondrite meteorite, in excellent ...

As a result, the United States and Japan conducted systematic follow-up searches for meteorites in Antarctica that recovered more than 40,000 specimens, including extremely rare Martian and lunar ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a Geo-collection by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).

TASS/. Strong winds are delaying work of the first Russian meteorite expedition in the Antarctic, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences committee studying the phenomena told TASS on Monday.