NASA and other enterprising space agencies exert a lot of effort boldly sending robots to explore the strange worlds in our solar system and seek out new data by analyzing their composition. In the ...

In the early hours of that morning, a bolide—a large, bright meteor—had exploded through the atmosphere of northeastern Arizona, near where Garvie works as the curator for the Center for Meteorite ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. A scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, ...

This rock encountered by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called “Lebanon,” similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the previous generation of rovers, Spirit ...

Alongside more conventional investments such as real estate, stocks and ETFs, many individuals choose to buy valuable substances from around the world. Some of those substances aren’t actually from ...