If a meteorite comes from the core of an asteroid as is the case for these samples, the nickel and iron it contains can form the characteristic Widmanstätten pattern, a busy yet ordered mesh of ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory 1st pictures; ... Iron and stony-iron meteorites consist of a mixture of two different nickel-iron ... pose with a 223-lb. (101 kilogram) stony-iron meteorite found in ...

A photo of the meteorite found in Arlington, Minn. recently by Bruce and Nelva Lilienthal shows the iron and nickel space rock, with a partly rusted surface. The stone was buried underground for ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

NASA’s Curiosity rover may have found its third meteorite on Mars. This image, taken on 12 January as the rover explored a peak called Mount Sharp, appears to show an iron-nickel meteorite, one ...

The composition of the Fukang meteorite is typical of pallasites, with about 50% of its mass made up of nickel-iron alloy and the remaining 50% consisting of olivine crystals.

[Gallery: See photos of the Lilienthals' meteorite] On May 30, ... Iron objects on Earth contain almost no nickel, but iron rocks from space are usually between 5 and 20 percent nickel.

But some ancient iron objects are much older than that — including the oldest iron objects known, a handful of iron beads found in a tomb at Gerzeh in northern Egypt that are dated to 3500 B.C ...

A massive space rock — one that could rank as one of the largest meteorites ever recovered — has been found in a remote and mountainous region in northwest China, according to news reports.

The results revealed concentrations of nickel that were too low to confirm whether the iron came from a meteorite. Still, some scientists remained unconvinced that the beads were entirely man-made ...