The sample is the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit. Scientists have studied a rare iron meteorite in detail, discovering what orbit its parent body occupied before ...

Iron meteorites are 3.5 times as heavy as a typical Earth rock. 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 ...

Before the rise of iron metallurgy, humans used iron from fallen meteorites to make precious items. The most famous example of this is the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s meteoritic dagger, a small blade ...

was likely made of iron that originated from a meteorite, researchers participating in a study by the Natural History Museum Bern have determined. Researchers, in a study published in the Journal ...

But they could harvest iron from meteorites to make weapons, tools, and decorative objects. Meteoric iron is easily distinguished from terrestrial iron: It has more nickel and less carbon.

Results strongly suggested the iron came from space. Surprisingly, the composition of the two artifacts is so similar, "both objects could [have] come from the same meteorite," as senior author ...

Researchers describe the features of the arrowhead and the likely source of the iron-rich meteorite in a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Previous research has found ...

Eh, probably not, you’re smart and skeptical, so you know that while the iron-nickel alloys in meteorites have distinctively different traces of other elements than those found in Earth’s own ...

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 ...

Researchers now present experimental evidence for a new possibility—that metals from iron-rich meteorites pelting the planet from above, as well as from volcanic particles spewing from within ...

Scientists have studied a rare iron meteorite in detail, discovering what orbit its parent body occupied before crashing into Earth. It is the first iron meteorite for which such orbit has been ...