Leading the November 20 auction is a 275-pound (125 kg) Brenham meteorite, a rare siderite pallasite discovered in Kansas in 2005. This specimen, embedded with olivine crystals, offers a unique ...
Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space ...
Examining old rocks with new technology reveals the source of the moon's atmosphere: Meteorites bombarding the lunar surface over billions of years have kicked up dust that forms the satellite's ...
“Wassonite is a mineral formed from only two elements, sulphur and titanium, yet it possesses a unique crystal structure ... extremely rare Martian and lunar meteorites. Researchers found ...
Some lunar missions have brought samples back from ... years before it was eventually found just last year in Africa. The meteorite, which carries the label NWA 11789 (NWA in this case means ...
To find out the basin’s age, they analysed a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa 2995 which was found in Algeria in 2005. The meteorite is a regolith breccia, which means it contains ...
A zircon crystal blasted off the face of Mars before landing on Earth as part of one of the most unusual meteorites ever found has revealed the oldest evidence of water on Mars. Moreover ...