Though meteorites fall with the same frequency around the world, scientists say, they are especially easy to spot in places like this, where they stand out against the beige expanse. Finding the ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Unlike most meteorites, which tumble through the earth’s atmosphere ... the meteorite hunter who found it. “If you see pictures of pallasites,” Arnold said Wednesday from his home in ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are ...

To better understand the origins of this meteorite, Mitchell and her team used an electron microscope and spectroscopic instruments to study its composition. They found that it was different from ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Our own planet, for example, had a devastating rendezvous with its sister protoplanet, and remnants of that interaction can still be found deep in the Earth’s lower mantle. Meteorites littered across ...