The answer turns out to be quite simple – previous estimates meteorites were just too high. Using a new analytical technique, the team looked at different kinds of chondrite meteorites, a type of ...

They're so named because they're made up of small particles called chondrules, caused by the rapid cooling of molten rock. These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three ...

These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three asteroid families called Massalia, Karin, and ...

Their millimetre-sized granules give chondrites their name, from the Greek 'chondres' meaning sand grains. There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to the type of ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may ... which was a primitive type of space rock called a carbonaceous chondrite. It would have measured between 23 and 36 miles (37 ...

At first, Josua was too scared to check what it was: the unknown object had come through his roof with such speed and force that it had cut ... meteorite found in Sumatra is a carbonaceous ...

Using samples from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, the research team spent two years precisely measuring and interpreting the oxygen isotope composition of organics in some of these ...