"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

We found rare specimens, like a pallasite meteorite, which reveals details about major collisions in solar system history.

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

Those meteorites were ejected from Mars and traversed space before landing on Earth, where they were discovered primarily in African deserts and Antarctica. They come in two categories ...

The meteorite, collected by a Japanese Antarctic research expedition in 2000, will be shown to the public for the first time at the expo. It is a scientifically important material containing clay ...

The Martian meteorite that will go on display is one ... It was discovered by a Japanese expedition in Antarctica. The theme of the Japan Pavilion is "Between Lives." It comprises three areas ...