Its chemical makeup differs from ordinary chondrites (the most frequent meteorites) and achondrites, which originate from the crusts of differentiated planets. If further research confirms its ...

Stony meteorites that don’t have chondrules are referred to as “achondrites” and are believed to be volcanic rocks formed from igneous activity within the parent bodies, where the melting and ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Credit: The ANSMET (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) Program, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah. The chemical composition of a meteorite could shake up scientists ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

Reynders, a past president of the SAIEE and a former Wits professor in engineering, has passed away at age 84.

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

Patrick M. Shober received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 945298. Patrick M. Shober currently ...

A recent Toho University study has revealed that the end of life will not happen by climate change or a meteorite hit, but a sheer lack of oxygen on the planet A NASA-led study has now confirmed ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Meteorites that reach Earth have less water than asteroid samples returned by space probes due to several factors. Carbonaceous chondrites, which are water-rich ...