metallic and stony metallic. Stony meteorites, as the name implies, are made from rocky material not all that different from what's found in the ground on our planet. These objects are the most ...

Yale researchers may have solved a longstanding puzzle as to why certain metallic meteorites show traces of a magnetic field — a finding that may shed light on the formation of magnetic dynamos at the ...

a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a comet), usually rocky or metallic ...

A metallic object that punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom, was a meteorite, experts announced Thursday.

A meteoroid is a rocky or metallic fragment of an asteroid, comet or planet. It then becomes a meteor when it enters Earth’s atmosphere. It heats up as it approaches Earth at a high rate of speed.

While poking around the bedrock of "Somesville" in the Murray Formation on Mars last Friday (Oct. 28), Curiosity's color camera snapped a photo that included a small, shiny metallic meteorite.