In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

They are commonly stone-like, but some contain a lot of ... Crater is about 0.6 miles across and was formed after an iron-nickel meteorite made an impact roughly 50,000 years ago.

This 635-kilogramme iron meteorite was once part of a larger meteorite that fell ... ploughman John Shipley looked up from his work on the Wold Cottage estate in Yorkshire to see this stone fall a few ...

As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

If we cut our Earth in half, we would also see an iron and nickel core in the middle. “This type of meteorite is made from iron, nickel metal and a mineral called olivine. This is a green-yellow iron ...

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash ... Subsequent x-rays showed that the stone was riddled with microscopic diamonds ...

Common iron meteorite prices are generally in the range of US$0.50 to US$5.00 per gram. Stone meteorites are much scarcer and priced in the US$2.00 to US$20.00 per gram range for the more common ...

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower.

As early as 3,000 BC in Egypt, people found iron-rich rocks scattered across the dry landscape and realised they were different. The ancient Egyptians used these meteorites to create high status ...