They are considered some of the most beautiful meteorites. There are two different types of stony-iron meteorites: pallasite and mesosiderite. Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - ...

A home security camera captured the rare event. The homeowner narrowly escaped getting hit. “It probably would’ve ripped me ...

Meteor strikes are usually associated with mass extinctions, but a new study shows that one meteor strike could have actually ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites ... the remnants of planetary genesis. There are two main types, believed to have formed in the inner and outer solar system respectively: ordinary chondrites ...

While there are about 300 different meteorites on display in Space Rocks ... Muonionalusta is classified as a fine octahedrite, type IVA, which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the ...

As early as 3,000 BC in Egypt, people found iron-rich rocks scattered across the dry landscape and realised they were different. The ancient Egyptians used these meteorites to create high status ...

Using three different types of microscopy ... Seti / P Jenniskens / M Shaddad The meteorites fell to Earth in the Nubian desert of Sudan About 50 pieces of the 4m-wide space rock - ranging ...