The Fukang Meteorite stands as one of the most exceptional and highly valued meteorites ever discovered, boasting both a unique aesthetic beauty and significant scientific importance. Discovered in ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. A scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...

Christie’s online-only auction “Deep Impact”: Martian, lunar and other rare meteorites, features some of the oldest objects in the world – 4.5 billion years old. The sale includes rare meteorites that ...

A stony-iron meteorite weighing an estimated 25 tons has been found in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China. It might even turn out to be heavier than that, since part of it's buried in the ...

A meteorite is a piece of rock that originated in space, then survived the fall through the Earth’s atmosphere to end up on the surface of our planet. We estimate that nearly 5000 rocks weighting more ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of ...