As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

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

The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

An Oxford study suggests Earth’s water may be native, challenging the idea that asteroids brought water to Earth after the ...

Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have significant monetary ... Iron meteorites are highly magnetic and very heavy for their size. An iron meteorite the size of ...

It has long been suspected that carbonaceous materials are too weak to survive the fiery plunge through the atmosphere. But ...

These rare meteorites, which make up only 0.2 percent of meteorites broadly, provide an incredibly rare window into the chaotic machinations of the early Solar System. Meteorites littered across ...

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 ...