The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

The Earth is a wondrous place, but some of the most stunning things sometimes come from off-world. Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial rocks that are strung through with ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of ...

Some of the world's rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth's crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of ...

Stony-iron meteorites form at the transition zone, which contains both metal and rock. In space, stony-irons make up about 1 percent of all meteoroids.

Esquel is a stony-iron pallasite meteorite that was found in Argentina in 1951. It's widely considered to be one of the most beautiful meteorites ever found. Credit: Dave Eicher ...

According to Cooke, three common meteorites that could land in this area are the stony, iron and carbonaceous chondrite. Here's a guide to understanding each one.

(Image credit: E. Chappel/R. Hueso/M. Delcroix/DeTeCt) The object's density was therefore similar to that of stony-iron meteorites, suggesting the impactor was an asteroid rather than a comet.

Iron Meteorites Play Hide-and-Seek Under Antarctic Ice Meteorites give scientists a glimpse into our early solar system, but the sun’s rays and melting ice may make these extraterestrial crumbs ...

What is a meteorite? Only when a fireball reaches Earth's surface is it called a meteorite. They are commonly designated as three types: stony meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites.

Some of the world’s rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth’s crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large ...