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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

But here’s the mystery: although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, meteorites from them are very rare. Less than 4% of recovered meteorites are carbonaceous chondrites. Scientists have ...