It’s time to drop the magnets, meteorite hunters. The commonly used method for identifying space rocks can destroy scientific information. Touching even a small magnet to a meteorite can erase any ...

So you think you've found a meteorite. Rachel Micander, a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering and a geologist for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, shares ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have identified a 2.9 billion year-old lunar meteorite. The meteorite, found in Africa in 2000, was examined by a group of scientists in the Earth and ...

“Meteorites” are space rocks that have survived passage through Earth’s atmosphere and have landed on the planet’s surface. They’re different than “meteoroids” (space rocks outside the Earth’s ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after positively identifying a meteorite that shattered a car window and landed in a carton of ice cream in ...

Meteorites - space rocks that survived a fiery plummet through Earth's atmosphere - are the main attraction for an eclectic community of enthusiasts from around the world every February. It offers ...