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 ...

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 ...

In 2014, the rover found an iron meteorite (nicknamed Lebanon) that measured about 6.5 feet across, and in 2016, it came across a golf ball-sized meteorite nicknamed Egg Rock on the planet’s ...

A massive 240-kilogram iron meteorite, believed to be 4.6 billion years old, is set to be auctioned later this summer in a ...

Curiosity Checks Iron Meteorite On MarsLaser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red ...

This octahedrite meteorite is composed of iron, nickel (7.2%), and cobalt (1.5%). Number of objects in this record 1 Record Last Modified 26 Oct 2023 USNM Number EO45305 Object Type Education and ...

An examination found that the rock is an iron-nickel meteorite composed of mostly iron with 12 percent nickel. A scientist at the Smithsonian Institution confirmed the analysis.

This is a 15cm wide fragment of the Seymchan iron-nickel meteorite found in Russia in 1967. The long filament of dark grey material in the centre is the phosphorus-rich mineral schreibersite.

Iron meteorites typically consist of approximately 90-95 percent iron, with the remainder composed of nickel and trace amounts of heavy metals including iridium, gallium and sometimes gold.

A team of researchers recently X-ray scanned an iron dagger found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to figure out how the object, the metal of which came from a meteorite, was made. They suspect the ...

The iron-nickel meteorite, worth $1,500, was taken from the museum in the 2500 block of West Broad Street on Thursday between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., according to a news release from the Virginia ...

These futuristic-seeming weapons were actually used far in the past. Researchers found that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, proving that alien ...