There are about 600 of these areas in Antarctica, which cover around 1% of the continent's surface area. Around 50,000 meteorites have already been found in Antarctica, which is around 60% of ...

However, far fewer iron-rich meteorites are found in Antarctica than anywhere else on Earth. The reason behind their scarcity has remained a mystery until now, but Dr Geoff Evatt and his team appear ...

who was part of the Antarctica mission. Most meteorites found weigh only about 20 grams, she said. A meteorite is a solid piece of debris that originates in outer space and survives its passage ...

Presently, 10 times fewer iron meteorites are found in Antarctica compared with other parts of the globe. The scientists say this discrepancy has nothing to do with differing fall rates ...

About 60 per cent of meteorites discovered on Earth are found in Antarctica and recovering these is essential for the UAE astronaut mission. Dr Aisha Al Suwaidi, associate professor, Earth Science ...

University of Manchester scientists are preparing for the first ever UK-led meteorite hunting expedition to Antarctica, where they will seek out the 'lost’ meteorites of the icy continent, which could ...

Iron meteorites are rare, however, especially in Antarctica. Less than 1% of all ... dragged array incorporates a lot of the electronics found in standard mine-detection equipment.

NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named “Wassonite” in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica ...

Much like the popular movie scene where scientists discover an ancient insect preserved in amber, a Carnegie Institution for Science research team announced its discovery of primitive dust particles ...

A 4.45-billion-year-old grain of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 indicates Mars may have been home to boiling hot hydrothermal systems similar to Earth ...

and Antarctica. But until now, researchers had never found the site where the meteorite hit. They'd been searching unsuccessfully for more than a century. In a new study published in the journal ...