"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

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

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

A Kobe University study has finally solved this decades-old puzzle. Researchers found that when meteorites are hit, organic ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

The ones that survive this fiery descent are known as meteorites. For scientists, meteorites are more than space debris. They're time capsules, preserving clues about the early Solar System.

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

By cataloguing the meteorites, we can build up a picture of how many of these not-quite planets there were and what they looked like. In some cases, we can even see traces left by the magnetic ...

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 ...