Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...

Chondrules, tiny spherical bits of stony matter, can be seen in this piece of the Hyattville meteorite that has been cut in half. Meteorites with chondrules are called chondrites and are the most ...

On Feb. 28, 2009, Peter Jenniskens, meteor astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute Mountain View, Calif., found his first 2008TC3 meteorite, an SUV-sized asteroid which broke ...

Bryson, a co-author on the study published earlier this month in Icarus, and his colleagues investigated an enstatite chondrite meteorite from Alaska known as LAR 12252. While a previous study of ...

The meteorite in question had been in Antarctica likely for hundreds of thousands of years, he said, and it is impossible to completely rule out the chance that the hydrogen may have formed during ...

Composed mainly of iron, the Maryborough meteorite boasts a high percentage of this metal. When scientists examined its interior, they discovered chondrules—a rare feature that offers insights ...

Finding a meteorite anywhere in Canada is something of a rarity. Last July, the first one discovered in Prince Edward Island was extra special, as it is likely the first meteorite impact to ever be ...

Joe Velaidum's home security camera captured the instant a meteorite smashed against his home's brick walkway. The video is thought to be the first recorded sound of a meteorite's direct impact.

Coincidentally, Dr. Chris Herd, the curator of the University of Alberta's meteorite collection, was vacationing in P.E.I. with his family shortly after this meteorite fell from the sky.

The meteorite's composition is rich in iron and crystallized minerals known as chondrules and it came out to be an incredibly rare specimen. Shockingly, only 17 meteorites have ever been recorded ...

A Meteorite Millions of Years in the Making Upon examination, museum scientists identified the rock as the Maryborough meteorite, an H5 ordinary chondrite. It was determined to be a staggering 4.6 ...