Unlocking the mysteries of a meteorite with a microscope at home. We take you through the process and gear recommendations to study space rock at home or in the classroom. When you purchase through ...

Meteorites are fragments of asteroids which find their way to Earth as shooting stars and provide information on the origins of our solar system. A team of researchers has examined the so-called ...

Curtin University planetary scientists have shed some light on the bombardment history of our solar system by studying a unique volcanic meteorite recovered in Western Australia. Captured on camera ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

Using a nanomanipulator and an ultra-fine ion beam, a tiny lamella, about five by ten micrometres in size and only one hundred nanometres thin, is cut out of the meteorite and attached to a sample bar ...