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 ...

It’s time to drop the magnets, meteorite hunters. The commonly used method for identifying space rocks can destroy scientific information. Touching even a small magnet to a meteorite can erase any ...

So you think you've found a meteorite. Rachel Micander, a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering and a geologist for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, shares ...

“Meteorites” are space rocks that have survived passage through Earth’s atmosphere and have landed on the planet’s surface. They’re different than “meteoroids” (space rocks outside the Earth’s ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The ...