The high nickel content in the iron indicated that the jewellery was crafted from an 'out of this world' metal.

They formed inside asteroids at a time when planets were only just coming together. If we cut our Earth in half, we would also see an iron and nickel core in the middle Caroline says, 'This type of ...

Along with the much more common shergottites, which are also basaltic rocks, and a few other more exotic Martian meteorite types, these categories of meteorite constitute all the rocks researchers ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

“All of this recent research history indicates that with continued collection, new meteorite types are likely to be found — including perhaps pieces of Mercury or Venus that might have been ...

Maybe somebody observed the meteorite fall and the iron was seen ... the darker iron obtained from terrestrial rocks. Using two types of iron, the Bronze Age blacksmith created the oldest known ...

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered Iron Age ornaments crafted from rare meteorite iron, revealing advanced metalworking skills.