The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

The dagger was found by archeologist Howard Carter in 1925, three years after he discovered King Tut's tomb. The dagger was in the wrapping surrounding the right thigh of the boy ...

Visitors to the Meteor Crater attraction have long been able to see the hole and look down into it. But beginning May 16, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BILLINGS — In 1990 a piece of the heavens fell in Roundup. But you’ll have to go to New York City ...

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). (Credit: Rayssa Martins/Ross Findlay) An iron ...

INDIANAPOLIS — While it might be rare, there is guidance from NASA on what to do if you ever come across a meteorite. The first thing to know, if you find a meteorite on the ground it is not harmful ...

v. 1. Iron meteorites in general : tables, appendices, references.--v. 2. Iron meteorites : Abakan-Mejillones.--v. 3. Iron meteorites : Merceditas-Zerhamra, supplement ...

Sought after by collectors and scientists alike for their rarity, meteorites hold a key to revealing the unimaginably distant past of the Solar System ...

I, too, am sceptical of the existence of a giant iron meteorite in the Sahara desert, but the two letters published on this question miss the point that Gaston Ripert didn’t just see the object from a ...