These objects come in three easy-to-remember categories: stony, metallic and stony metallic. Stony meteorites, as the name implies, are made from rocky material not all that different from what's ...

As the result of an unusual find by the joint managers of Mount Padbury sheep station, near Meekatharra, Western Australia (latitude 25° 40′ S.; longitude 118° 06′ E.), a peculiar occurrence ...

Stony meteorites come from a variety of different places in the solar system, including the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt. While some of these originated from bodies that differentiated ...

ITS discoverer, Gustav Tschermak, assigned the name “Maskelynite” to an isotropic substance with the chemical composition of plagioclase, which occurred in the Shergotty achondritic stony ...

The achondrite meteorites can be much younger: some of lunar meteorites are only 2.9 billion years old and some of the Martian meteorites are only 200 million years old.

A new study, published in the journal Nature, brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came from.

Mysterious rare meteorites made of a mix of stone and iron likely formed when Vesta, the brightest asteroid in the sky, experienced a giant impact, a new study finds. That impact took place more ...

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 ...

As we know, meteorites can be split into three groups: stony, irons and stony-irons. If you look at the world collections of ...

Melted meteorites are so-called because they consist of a rock called achondrite which was formed after objects collided to form the Solar System's early proto-planets, ...