Although two 4.5-billion-year-old meteorites crashed to Earth in 1998, it's taken until now to uncover some of their secrets. The two meteorites, called Monahans and Zag, are the first discovered to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare gemstones, prehistoric fossils, crystals, meteorites and more are returning to the NJ Gem Show in October. The ...

Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space by ...

Heritage Auctions will present an eclectic mix of rare meteorites, fossils, and gemstones in a virtual sale that highlights some of Earth’s—and the cosmos’s—most striking natural artifacts. Leading ...

A meteorite that crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from a meteorite that landed in Steinbach in 1724, a rare sample of silica, ...

A mystery that puzzled scientists for more than half a century may finally have an answer. The strange crystals hidden in a famous Arizona meteorite have now been recreated in a lab, and they could ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the ...