An extremely rare meteorite — found on an unassuming ... which weighs just 10.6 ounces. The special type of meteorite is known as a carbonaceous chondrite. “This is really exciting ...

The Earth has some pretty spectacular and rare minerals. We’re not talking about the likes of diamonds or rubies, we’re ...

After her passing in 1991, a relative inherited the property and made an astounding realization : the rock was, in fact, an ...

Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have significant monetary value. The meteorite collection of Luomus is a Finnish national treasure. It is developed and ...

The meteorite is made up of six fragments, with the largest piece weighing about 3kg A meteorite that is one of the biggest pieces of the Moon ever put up for sale is being auctioned online by a ...

In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found. Almost 300g of a very rare ...

That piece is now in the university’s meteorite collection. Because it’s largely made up of iron, it weighs a hefty 19.23 kilograms — 42 pounds. This type of iron meteorite is thought to ...

Initially mistaking it for a gold nugget, experts later identified it as an H5 chondrite meteorite, offering rare insights into the solar system's formation. This significant scientific find ...

At 4.5 billion years old, meteorites are among the oldest and rarest objects on earth ... Muonionalusta is classified as a fine octahedrite, type IVA, which impacted in northern Scandinavia ...