Meteorites serve as unique time capsules that ... despite having a short half-life) across the solar nebula. Initial suspicions suggesting that Erg Chech 002 dates back to 4.566 billion years ...

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?

The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion years ago. The previous oldest known crater was 2.2 billion years old. It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts ...

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

Scientists continue to study meteorites like Murchison in hopes they'll be able to unlock their celestial secrets. The public, too, continues to be fascinated. For an up-close look, pieces of the ...