Something pretty extraordinary happened over Spain on a Saturday night recently. What folks first thought was a meteorite ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

There are two different types of stony-iron meteorites: pallasite and mesosiderite. Pallasites contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals - a form of magnesium-iron silicate called olivine - embedded ...

In a breathtaking celestial event that captivated thousands, a meteor streaked across the night sky, leaving spectators in awe from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic. The dazzling sight, which ...

The meteorite has been named the "Charlottetown Meteorite" and was found to be made of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. The fragments are now a part of the University of Alberta Meteorite ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites ... including oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron and nickel) closely reflect the sun's photosphere composition. Melting and clumped accumulation (accretion ...

Most of the meteorites are regular chondrites, stony, non-metallic objects of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. The research included a detailed survey of all the major asteroid families in the ...

2 (UPI) --The Quadrantids meteor shower is expected to reach maximum ... of the meteors and the presence of certain elements like magnesium and iron in the meteoroids, which emit blue lights ...