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

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 ...

The meteor that exploded over the Che­lyabinsk region of Russia on Feb. 15 was an ordinary chondrite, with a stony composition common to most of the meteorites that land on Earth, according to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...