HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On the ground floor of the Festival Conference and Student Center on James Madison University’s campus lies a treasure trove of minerals from around our planet - and off our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorite chemistry shows which primitive asteroids may hold usable metals or water, and why most space mining remains difficult. ...

The Los Angeles Meteorite has an interesting history. Most meteorites have more specific information about the location they were found, but not this one. Bob Verish found two stones in the Mojave ...

As soon as the fireball touched down, time was of the essence for researchers hoping to recover pristine samples of the rare ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

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Clarke, F. W. 1886. "The meteorite collection in the U. S. National Museum; a catalogue of meteorites represented November 1, 1886." In Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending ...

Written by the United States National Museum curator of meteorites, Edward P. Henderson, the article summarizes the collection of meteorites and the type of research done on them.

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...