The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

‘Superman’ star Nathan Fillion staunchly defends his character’s extreme hairstyle: ‘I was team bowl cut the whole way’ S.F. residents had parked in their driveways for years. Then someone started ...

This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did it fetch the highest price of any meteorite ever, it’s also the largest, ...

Since 2011, retired computer programmer Carol Roullard has been taking photos of crystals and other objects under a microscope. The above image, which she tweeted earlier this month, is a photo of a ...

Scanning SQUID Microscope (URSSM) that was used in study of thermal history of Martian meteorite ALH84001. Photo source: Neil Brake, Vanderbilt University.

Unique Vanderbilt magnetic microscope was used to determine that the interior of the famous Martian meteorite (ALH84001) remained at temperatures below 104 degrees F during its trip from Mars to ...

Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way to Earth as shooting stars and provide information on the origins of our solar system. A team of researchers has examined the so-called ...

Meteorite analysis Illustration showing how an extremely thin slice of the Winchcombe meteorite, targeting a region-of-interest rich in carbon-containing chemicals, can be precisely extracted for ...

A thin-sectioned specimen of the Allende Meteorite, photographed by Jeff Barton using cross-polarized light, with a DSLR attached to a petrographic microscope.

Cosmic building blocks of life discovered through the electron microscope Date: January 29, 2024 Source: University of Münster Summary: Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way ...

A team of researchers has examined the Winchcombe meteorite and demonstrated the existence in it of nitrogen compounds such as amino acids and heterocyclic hydrocarbons—without applying any ...