There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out of reach. You might think that these submerged space rocks would be very ...

Some of the world’s rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth’s crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of ...

The USGS says they adapted these tips from the University of New Mexico Meteorite Museum. Density: Meteorites are usually quite heavy for their size, since they contain metallic iron and dense ...

A stony-iron meteorite weighing an estimated 25 tons has been found in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China. It might even turn out to be heavier than that, since part of it's buried in the ...

"There is no rhyme or reason to where meteorites are," Kilgore said. One of Kilgore's larger specimens is a 940-pound stony-iron pallasite meteorite he found in China. He said he traveled to ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...