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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Models predict that most meteorites—over half—should also be carbonaceous. But less than 4% of all the meteorites found on Earth are carbonaceous. So why is there such a mismatch?

Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less than 5% of meteorites found on Earth. An international team of scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere. Among ...