A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

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

David Hole stored a rock in his home for several years which turned out to be significantly valuable. He found it near ...

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

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

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

Related: What are meteorites? To find a solution, Kosuke Kurosawa, an astrophysicist at Kobe University in Japan, turned to an old theory: that asteroid collisions release vapor from water-bearing ...

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 ...

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 ...