University of Manchester scientists are preparing for the first ever UK-led meteorite hunting expedition to Antarctica, where they will seek out the 'lost’ meteorites of the icy continent, which could ...
A team of British scientists has arrived in the Antarctic to try to find the continent's "missing meteorites". The group, from the University of Manchester, will spend six weeks scouring a remote ...
Most of the space rocks in collections were picked up in the Antarctic The first British-led expedition to gather meteorites in the Antarctic has returned with a haul of 36 space rocks.
Meteorites are larger chunks that survived their fiery plunge all the way to the earth. But most of them are lost: They sink to the bottom of oceans or lakes, or are buried in sand dunes or soft soil, ...
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 ...
TASS/. Strong winds are delaying work of the first Russian meteorite expedition in the Antarctic, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences committee studying the phenomena told TASS on Monday.