Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.

A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

David Hole's search for gold leads to discovery of rare 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite Composed mainly of iron, the Maryborough meteorite boasts a high percentage of this metal.

'Extremely rare' While iron is a widely used metal today, it was considered to be extremely rare and precious and was only known from meteorites, prior to the Iron Age (800 BC).

Recent testing at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin showed that the meteorites are an extremely rare type of space rock called aubrites. Aubrites make up only about 1 in 10,000 recovered ...

“Falls of iron meteorites are rare globally — this is the only observed fall of an iron meteorite in Sweden,” Dr. Holtstam added. “In almost 40 years in geoscience, it was the first time I ...

An 82-pound iron meteorite originating from an asteroid recently sold for $44,100 — about $540 ... Meteorites are incredibly rare, with just over 64,000 known meteorites existing in collections ...

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 ...