Some people include mother-of-pearl (cut from mollusc’s shells) and meteorite in the category; meteorite is also fundamentally stone – rocks rich in iron ore that when acid-treated and polished reveal ...

Then, in 1969, the Murchison meteorite smashed into Australia. One of the oldest known remnants of the pre-Earth solar system, this meteorite played a pivotal role in confirming the presence of ...

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...