Tiny crystals in meteorites were witness to the Sun’s unruly behavior in its earliest years. The Sun sends a lot more than Sunshine and rainbows our way. High-energy particles capable of messing with ...

A collection of meteorites has been added to James Madison University’s Mineral Museum. The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday and includes everything from primitive ...

Scattered thinly over the earth’s surface are large patches of tektites—glassy lumps up to several inches across, of mysterious and probably unearthly origin. In Britain’s Nature, American Chemist ...

In 2011 geologist Kerry Sieh and his husband were shopping in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, when they popped into a little jewelry shop to check out the country’s famous rubies and spinels. But once ...

WITH reference to Dr. L. J. Spencer's letter in NATURE of October 7, p. 571, on the origin of tektites, the strongest argument against his suggestion that they were formed by the fusion of terrestrial ...

The ad pieces about the sale of meteorites have appeared on some Russian websites. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, these “stones from the sky” have been traded for the last tens of years. VietNamNet Bridge – ...