China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating ...

Somewhere in the early summer of 2025, China’s Chang’e6 capsule landed on the South Pole of the Moon and started digging its ...

CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and ...

A special kind of meteorite with radioactive elements could have potentially sparked life on Earth, a new study suggests. Researchers have previously theorised that meteorites may have delivered amino ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent isotopic and paleomagnetic data point to a possible connection between carbonaceous chondrites and differentiated planetary materials, ...

An object that crashed through the roof of a Trenton-area home on Monday afternoon was a meteorite with origins from the formation of the solar system about 4.56 billion years ago, scientists from The ...

The meteor that caused at least 1,000 injuries in Russia after a startling and powerful daytime explosion one week ago has been identified as a chondrite. Russian scientists who analyzed fragments of ...

A new study finds that Earth's water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed -- instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering ...