The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

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A fireball flashed across the Southeast sky Thursday, with booms and shaking reported in Georgia. NWS meteorologists say ...

But they could harvest iron from meteorites to make weapons, tools, and decorative objects. Meteoric iron is easily distinguished from terrestrial iron: It has more nickel and less carbon.

The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its possible origin.