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 ...

A: The three major types of meteorite (stony, stony-iron, and iron) cover a wide range of densities, from the least dense stony meteorites (roughly 2 to 3 grams per cubic centimeter), which have ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of ...

For about a month, Katherine Joy spent hours snaking up and down the Antarctic ice on a snowmobile, trying to spot gatherings of meteorites. The bottom of the Earth is a jarringly alien realm—an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Antarctica may be home to hundreds of thousands of meteorites — but finding them is ...