Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a piece of space itself. Maybe it's been sitting there for centuries.Or maybe ...

An arrowhead produced more than 3,000 years ago is made of iron that originated from a meteorite, researchers have found. The arrowhead, which has been dated to the late Bronze Age (900-800 B.C.), was ...

An ancient iron arrowhead found near Lake Biel in Switzerland, dating back to the Bronze Ages, was likely made of iron that originated from a meteorite, researchers participating in a study by the ...

New work led by Carnegie’s Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System’s oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Their ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

Highly Skilled craftsmanshipA ge with a meteoritic iron blade mounted in bronze was found in the tomb of a ruler from the eighth or ninth century B.C. The weapon represents an innovation in ...