Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space ...
They are considered some of the most beautiful meteorites. There are two different types of stony-iron meteorites: pallasite and mesosiderite. Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - ...
A zircon crystal blasted off the face of Mars before landing on Earth as part of one of the most unusual meteorites ever found has revealed the oldest evidence of water on Mars. Moreover ...
An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...
Since 2011, retired computer programmer Carol Roullard has been taking photos of crystals and other objects under a microscope. The above image, which she tweeted earlier this month, is a photo of a ...
The source of the splotch was officially registered on Monday as the Charlottetown meteorite, named after the city on Prince Edward Island, in eastern Canada, where it landed. Only 69 meteorites ...
In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...
However, its original structure remained. The meteorite contains “pre-solar grains”, tiny crystals formed in stars before the Sun and Earth came into existence. These grains, including micro ...
The OMEGA Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite is powered by OMEGA’s manual-winding Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibre 9914, a brand new movement. It can be seen through the sapphire crystal ...