David Hole kept the rock for years thinking it had gold in it, before researchers discovered it was a meteorite.

With the growing ubiquity of cameras, in our pockets and in our homes, it's not that strange to capture those moments when ...

A family woke up and found their car windshield with a hole in it, but their curious son soon cracked the mystery— it was a meteorite.

A couple in Marshfield on Price Edward Island, Canada got a nice surprise on their Ring doorbell camera feed last year. While ...

When compared to rocks found on Earth, meteorites are heavier due to their makeup of dense minerals. Most space rocks contain metallic iron and often respond to magnets. They also have irregular ...

During the decay of radioactive elements in the early history of the solar system, many asteroids melted and the iron they contained, being dense, sank to the centre to form a metallic core.

Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites contain mainly metallic iron. Most stony meteorites are magnetic and quite heavy for their size, as they contain ...

Most of the meteorites are regular chondrites, stony, non-metallic objects of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. The research included a detailed survey of all the major asteroid families in the ...

The most fruitful regions on Earth for collecting meteorites are in Antarctica, where dark-coloured non-metallic meteorites show up clearly against the white background of the ice. However, iron-based ...

According to the Uruguayan Navy, the meteorite is one of the largest metallic meteorites ever known. ”The value depends on the weight and how it is sold (in whole or in pieces). The price of ...

a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a comet), usually rocky or metallic ...

Earthly rocks or products that are often mistaken for meteorites: metalliferous slags (mostly porous) sulphidic sedimentary nodules (made of pyrite or marcasite) Concretions of haematite or magnetite ...