Arizona State University researchers reporting this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have found that fragments of the Sutter’s...
According to a team of Russian scientists reporting today at the Goldschmidt conference in Italy, the Chelyabinsk meteorite either collided with another...
A new analysis of ancient Egyptian iron beads found in 1911 in Gerzeh, northern Egypt, has shown that they were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather...
Researchers have proposed a radical solution to a cosmochemical mystery that has baffled scientists for over a century: how numerous small, glassy chondrules...
According to a new study reported in the journal Nature, the atmosphere of Mars could have been rich in oxygen almost 4 billion years ago.
An artist’s...
British scientists have provided evidence that ancient Egyptians used meteorite iron to make accessories as early as 3,300 BC.
The Gerzeh bead is the earliest...
Geologists led by Dr Lydia Hallis from the University of Hawaii have examined a meteorite that formed on Mars more than 1 billion years ago to determine...
An international team of researchers has discovered tiny grains of sand from ancient supernova in two primitive meteorites.
Primitive carbonaceous chondrite...
In a controversial paper published in the March issue of the Journal of Cosmology, scientists from Cardiff University with colleagues from Sri Lanka and...
Scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station have found an 18 kg chondrite embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Members of...
U.S. scientists have identified a new class of meteorite that fell to Earth and likely originated from the crust of the Red Planet.
Fragments of the meteorite...
U.S. scientists have discovered that a meteorite that fell over El Dorado County in northern California this past spring was the rarest type known to have...
A German-Austrian team of scientists has discovered that an ancient Buddhist statue found by a German expedition to Tibet in 1938 is carved from an ataxite,...
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new mineral embedded in the Allende meteorite that fell in central Mexico more...
Researchers have found strong evidence that carbon in Martian meteorites, including in the famous Allan Hills 84001, is indigenous – and not contamination...
