The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life ... which was a primitive type of space rock ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to the type of asteroid the meteorite came from. Chondrites are the material from which the solar system formed. They ...

“We think that Earth mostly accreted from enstatite chondrite-like materials,” Barnes says. Until recently enstatite meteorites were ... without even making a cut,” Barnes says.

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms. But that was far from ...

Of the approximately 65,000 meteorites in collections worldwide, only 1,206 had eyewitnesses to their fall, and of these only 51 are of the carbonaceous chondrite type. Because this fireball was ...

Among these is the 'Ensisheim' meteorite, which is the oldest in the collection. This ordinary chondrite fell in Alsace, France, on November 7, 1492, and represents an important historical event ...

These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three asteroid families called Massalia, Karin, and Koronis, the researchers determined, all located in the main asteroid belt ...