Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through space relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our planet. This is in ...

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through space relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our planet.

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research using shooting stars may explain why.

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 ...

Raouf Rahimzadeh explained that days ago, a meteorite sample, along with several precious stones, was sent by Dr. Mohammadali Makkizadeh, one of the prominent professors of petrology, to the ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...