In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold ...

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 ...

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower. The ...

This survey gear has just come through a week of successful trials. Presently, 10 times fewer iron meteorites are found in Antarctica compared with other parts of the globe. The scientists say ...

As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

and L (low iron) chondrites, the most common type, accounting for around 70 percent of meteorites. They're so named because they're made up of small particles called chondrules, caused by the rapid ...

Iron meteorites are rare, however, especially in Antarctica. Less than 1% of all the space rocks recovered in searches on the continent are of the metal type, compared with about 5% elsewhere in ...

An iron meteorite found in an Ocean Falls backyard in the 1960s will be up for bids in Lunds Auctioneers and Appraisers’ Top Notch auction on Dec. 10. The chunk is “older than anything you ...

Two gold-and-iron artifacts from ancient Spain predated our ability to work with iron. So how did they do it? With ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...