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 ...

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

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.

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

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have succeeded in synthesizing the hundred-micron-scale hexagonal diamond, a material primarily found in meteorites, which is harder than the ordinary ...

Harris, working with Henry County Emergency Management and the homeowner, examined the entry point and fragments of meteorite ...

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

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewritin ...

A massive Mars meteorite sold for a record-breaking $5.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction, making it the highest selling ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...