Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

One type, however, known as a pallasite meteorite is very different. They are made of olive-green crystals that are composed ...

This iron octahedrite meteorite demonstrates the Widmanstatten pattern, a crystalline structure formed by interwoven bands of the nickel-iron minerals, kamacite, and taenite. Kamacite is found on ...

Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.

A bracelet and possible sword pommel found in a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard were forged from meteoritic iron, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the pieces. In other words ...

In 1916, a French consular official reported finding a giant "iron hill" deep in the Sahara desert, roughly 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chinguetti, Mauritania—purportedly a meteorite ...

A 3,000-year-old iron arrowhead found in Switzerland was likely made from a meteor, A study by the Natural History Museum Bern has determined.

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

A 3,000-year-old arrowhead housed in Switzerland ’s Bern History Museum was made using iron from a meteorite, scientists have said. Researchers describe the features of the arrowhead and the ...

Stony meteorites are about one and half times as heavy. But a chunk of slag, a byproduct of industry, is heavy as well, and way more common than a meteorite.

Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.