NASA’s Curiosity rover found a meteorite as it was trucking across Mars last week. The iron-nickel meteorite, nicknamed Cacao, is about a foot across and clearly made up of different stuff than ...

A bracelet and possible sword pommel found in a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard were forged from meteoritic iron, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the pieces. In other words ...

There are also professional meteorite hunters who track down meteorite fragments after a particularly heavy meteor storms or the low-altitude detonation of an asteroid above the Earth’s surface ...

Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. A piece of the Henbury iron meteorite. It is 28 ...

Not what Sci-fi writers had in mind when dreaming up extra-terrestrial projectiles. Researchers found that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, provi… ...

Scientists have known for over 50 years that the great, round pit near Canyon Diablo, Ariz, is a meteorite crater. In Scientific Monthly, Dr. H. H. Nininger offers proof that it was made not by one ...

On Cool Sword Day, we pay respects to starmetal, thunderbolt iron, meteorite swords — enduring icons of fantasy books, movies, and TV shows.

The iron-nickel space rock, nicknamed 'Cacao,' is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide. NASA's Curiosity rover has found another meteorite on Mars. The space rock is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide and ...

A 3,000-year-old iron arrowhead found in Switzerland ... of an iron meteorite that fell to Earth about 170,000 ... the nearby Twannberg field because it contained around 8.3% nickel, ...

Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.