When scientists found one such meteorite embedded in the thick ice of Antarctica, they unlocked a time capsule carrying ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

Antarctica may be home to hundreds of thousands of meteorites — but finding them is extraordinarily difficult. . | Credit: Stocktrek Images/Getty Images There are hundreds of thousands of ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...

NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named “Wassonite” in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica ...

The Meteorite Hunters follows Joshua Howgego's quest to discover and better understand pieces of other worlds.

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan houses 17,400 meteorites.

"They can tell us where we came from." As curator of Antarctic meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Department of Mineral Sciences in Washington, D.C., Corrigan ...

Ioannis Baziotis is one of the leading Greek scientists in the field of planetary science and cosmochemistry. As Associate Professor of Mineralogy-Petrology at the Agricultural University of Athens, ...

TASS/. Strong winds are delaying work of the first Russian meteorite expedition in the Antarctic, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences committee studying the phenomena told TASS on Monday.

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash-landed in the Allen Hills of Antarctica, the sawteeth on their blade got all chewed up.