The back of a meteorite discovered by Bruce and Nelva Lilienthal on their farm in Arlington, Minn. Scientists think it’s a rare type of non-magnetic meteorite. [ Read full story here ...

Rare, gem-studded meteorites that resemble stained-glass windows when backlit may have come from magnetic asteroids that splintered apart in ancient collisions, scientists say.

The meteorite also appears to belong to a rare class of non-magnetic meteorites that originated in melt pools on asteroids created by impacts of other rocks. Additionally, ...

Even if a meteorite does contain iron, it isn't expected to have a circulating dynamo, like the one in Earth's inner core, which scientists think is necessary to generate a magnetic field.

The chondrule grains whose magnetic fields were mapped in the new study came from a meteorite named Semarkona, after the place in India where it fell in 1940. It weighed 691 grams, or about 1.5 ...

The chondrule grains whose magnetic fields were mapped in the new study came from a meteorite named Semarkona, after the place in India where it fell in 1940. It weighed 691 grams, or about a ...

Roger Fu, the lead author of the paper, and his supervisor, Benjamin Weiss, tracked the magnetic field's variation throughout the meteorite, even though the fields they picked up are extremely weak.

To look for signs of these primordial magnetic fields, researchers investigated the so-called Semarkona meteorite, a rock weighing about 1.5 pounds that crashed in northern India in 1940.