When workers near the Spanish town of Villena uncovered a glittering stash of Bronze Age gold in the 1960s, it was quickly ...

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 ...

A meteorite is a piece of rock that originated in space, then survived the fall through the Earth’s atmosphere to end up on the surface of our planet. We estimate that nearly 5000 rocks weighting more ...

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Iowa's oldest, rarest and most fearsome stone - the meteorite - has in ancient times left marks on the landscape detectable only by scientists and in modern times frightened hundreds of witnesses. How ...