This new analysis (led by Jennifer Mitchell at the University of Minnesota) looked at the coarse-grained achondrite that was originally discovered in Algeria in 2023, and found that the rock didn’t ...

Murphy has been putting together a catalog of Colorado meteorites and hopes to publish soon. The museum's collection of iron, stony-iron and achondrite meteorites is used by scientists and some ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides insight into the universe's early stages, from small rocky bodies to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Meteorite Event in Stardew Valley is a rare occurrence that can be triggered at night. For new players, randomly seeing a huge purple rock on their farm can be very exciting. This event ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

That is the take-home message of two adventurous books about the people who hunt for, collect, research and trade in meteorites. In The Meteorite Hunters, journalist Joshua Howgego takes a broad ...