A rare meteorite that traveled 36 million miles on its journey to Earth could become the most expensive space rock ever sold ...

Spanning 60,000 square meters, the exhibition features 1,200 international-standard booths across four themed zones: mineral crystals, colored gemstones, fossils and meteorites, and art crafts.

Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are believed to form between the silicate mantle, or outer shell, and molten metal core of a differentiated asteroid (asteroids that ...

Pallasite meteorites consist of a nickel-iron matrix packed with olivine crystals. When these crystals come in sufficient purity and an emerald-green colour, they’re referred to as peridots, a ...

Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial rocks that are strung through with gemstones, offering tantalizing glimpses into our Solar System’s deep history.

TEHRAN- Iran’s second meteorite museum was inaugurated at Tehran’s Iran Mall on Monday, following over six years since the inception of the first branch at Azadi Tower. The Museum of Meteorites of ...

Leading the November 20 auction is a 275-pound (125 kg) Brenham meteorite, a rare siderite pallasite discovered in Kansas in 2005. This specimen, embedded with olivine crystals, offers a unique ...

Pallasites and metallic meteorites are rocks from differentiated asteroids – ones that also have a mantle and core. Such space rocks are the closest we will ever come to sampling the deepest portions ...

Pallasites and metallic meteorites are rocks from differentiated asteroids – ones that also have a mantle and core. Such space rocks are the closest we will ever come to sampling the deepest ...

While perhaps disappointing to scientists and meteorite hunters, it’s likely for the best. In 2013, a 55-foot-long meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk with a force equivalent to ...