Declared as garden décor, a massive object stopped at a Russian port turned out to be a rare space relic, triggering legal ...

The 'discreet' fragment of Aletai, weighing more than 2 tons, comes from one of the largest iron meteorites known on Earth.

Russia's customs service says a 2.8-ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite was found in a shipping container, labeled as a garden ...

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 ...

Talk about out-of-this-world bling! Spanish researchers have discovered that two iron artifacts from a hoard of precious treasure that dates back to the Late Bronze Age — before man started the ...

Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet’s sky. Iron-nickel meteorites are a common ...

New work led by Carnegie’s Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System’s oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Their ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite? NASA says this: A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found a meteorite as it was trucking across Mars last week. The iron-nickel meteorite, nicknamed Cacao, is about a foot across and clearly made up of different stuff than its ...