From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their ...

Natural diamond, seen here, has a cubic packing structure. But a much rarer form of diamond has hexagonal packing and has now ...

S cientists have predicted and experimentally confirmed the existence of a material with “hybrid crystal-glass thermal ...

Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, ...

Chinese researchers have succeeded in synthesising the hundred-micron-scale hexagonal diamond, a material primarily found in meteorites, which is harder than the ordinary diamond found on Earth.

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These ...

Br. Guy Consolmagno presents on CI meteorites in Australia. These ancient space rocks offer clues about asteroids and the ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

Br. Guy Consolmagno presents on CI meteorites in Australia. These ancient space rocks offer clues about asteroids and the ...

During a trip to the Yale Peabody Museum when he was in high school, Jules Pugh had the chance to handle a meteorite. More than 4.6 million years old ...