Meteorites carry clues that are pivotal in exploring the history of our Solar System, yet they don't all look the same after impact. Colliding with a planetary surface sends shockwaves through ...

Meteorites carry clues that are pivotal in exploring the history of our Solar System, yet they don’t all look the same after impact. Colliding with a planetary surface sends shockwaves through ...

That is the take-home message of two adventurous books about the people who hunt for, collect, research and trade in meteorites. In The Meteorite Hunters, journalist Joshua Howgego takes a broad ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

Credit: The ANSMET (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) Program, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah. The chemical composition of a meteorite could shake up scientists ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

Scientists from the University of Oxford analyzed a rare type of meteorite known as an enstatite chondrite. The space rock dates to around 4.6 billion years ago and is believed to be similar in ...