"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

Hundreds of thousands of pristine meteorites are currently littered across, or just below, Antarctica's icy surface. But most of these space rocks could be lost forever over the next few decades ...

NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named “Wassonite” in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica ...

The meteorites were discovered during the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) in Antarctica. The international team was led by Belgian scientists from the Université libre de Bruxelles ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

"They can tell us where we came from." As curator of Antarctic meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Department of Mineral Sciences in Washington, D.C., Corrigan ...

Jan. 18, 2023 — Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons -- it's bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it's one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites.

The meteorite, collected by a Japanese Antarctic research expedition in 2000, will be shown to the public for the first time at the expo. It is a scientifically important material containing clay ...

Antarctica may be home to hundreds of thousands of meteorites — but finding them is extraordinarily difficult. . | Credit: Stocktrek Images/Getty Images There are hundreds of thousands of ...