NASA’s Curiosity rover has assembled a string of chemical evidence from ancient Martian rocks that, taken together, builds ...

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“When they tried to export it, it was declared as a landscape sculpture,” officials said. “But an examination confirmed it was a fragment of the Aletai iron meteorite, valued at roughly €3.6 million.” ...

A shipping container bound for the United Kingdom was stopped at the Port of Saint Petersburg in early February 2026. Inside, Russian customs officers found a large, unidentified metallic object. The ...

Moscow — Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen ...

The huge specimen weighing more than 2.5 tonnes is believed to have come from the Aletai meteorite, one of the largest known iron meteorites on Earth, it said. Prosecutors have opened a criminal ...

Moscow (AFP) – Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge ...

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Neutron scans uncover water bearing minerals inside the Black Beauty Martian meteorite by identifying hydrogen rich components preserved within its structure. According to Universe Today on February 4 ...

I, too, am sceptical of the existence of a giant iron meteorite in the Sahara desert, but the two letters published on this question miss the point that Gaston Ripert didn’t just see the object from a ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an ...