Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

Scientists from Russia and Germany studied the molecular composition of carbonaceous chondrites – the insoluble organic matter of the Murchison and Allende meteorites This was done in an attempt to ...

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few ...

Southwest Research Institute, or SwRI, is studying impact flashes generated by high-speed collisions. One application of understanding impact flashes is to remotely identify what materials are ...

Analysis of a rare volcanic meteorite has provided the first definitive evidence of a protoplanet that once existed in the infancy of the Solar System. The discovery challenges conventional models of ...

PRL Study Finds ALHA 81005 Matches Pragyan Readings ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery. Reading time 3 minutes Water ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. This is a science story of sheer luck. A meteorite made “auditory ...