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

What He Thought Was Gold Was Actually a 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Find ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meteorites are fragments of space debris that survive their passage through the Earth's atmosphere and impact the surface. They offer invaluable information about the early solar system and the ...

An iron meteorite found in the Sahara Desert. (Image: X/@AMAZlNGNATURE) Ali Benamar found a rare large iron meteorite in the Sahara Desert. Experts are studying its composition and age in laboratories ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

It all started with an overheard conversation between some camel herders. The year was 1916, and Gaston Ripert, a French army captain, had been injured and sent to recover in the small town of ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

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