Starring in various upmarket, limited edition jewelry collections, meteorites are among 2020's most intriguing luxury jewelry materials and are also shining in the Maine Gem & Mineral Museum.

The meteorites, combined with other previous data about Mars, including observations by the Curiosity rover, revealed three things. In the Martian meteorites, the crust remained much the same over ...

Ann Hodges was struck by a meteorite while on her couch in Alabama. Meteorite hits are so unlikely, you might say. Tell that to the late Ann Hodges, who was on her couch on Nov. 30, 1954, when a 8 ...

Earth is hit by thousands of meteorites each year, according to a 2020 study published in Geology — but they're small meteorites, not planet-changing asteroids. And with those meteorites come numerous ...

The 4.6-billion-year-old Erg Chech 002 meteorite, which is encrusted with green crystals, was discovered in the Erg Chech region of the Sahara Desert in Algeria in 2020.. Meteorites like this are ...

A 2020 meteorite that fell in Somalia carried two rare minerals not found anywhere else on Earth. A meteorite that crashed to the ground in Somalia in 2020 brought with it at least two unique.

Editor’s note: This article was first published in 2020 and has been updated. When we stargaze, we bask in photons that have traveled for many millennia before reaching our eyes. To us, the ...

How did researchers determine the meteorite's age? Krestianinov and his colleagues analyzed lead and uranium isotopes in Erg Chech 002 and determined its lead-isotopic age as about 4.566 billion ...

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 ...