New work led by Carnegie’s Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System’s oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Their ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

“It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, sculpted boulder on the rim of Jezero Crater. In almost four years of traversing ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found a meteorite as it was trucking across Mars last week. The iron-nickel meteorite, nicknamed Cacao, is about a foot across and clearly made up of different stuff than its ...

The sample is the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have ...