Cartersville's Tellus Science Museum has collected a piece of the meteorite that fell from the sky and landed in the Henry ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid ...

Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests ...

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 Aguas Zarcas meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite, surprisingly orbited for 2 million years without collision, challenging the fragile "mudball" reputation.

"We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from a debris field called ' Koronis,' which is located low in the pristine main belt," said Jenniskens.

Most meteorites that impact the Earth come from the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter's orbits, where over a million space rocks, each more than 0.6 miles wide, circle the sun.

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

The space rock, dubbed the Charlottetown Meteorite, is an "ordinary" chondrite, a stony meteorite containing small mineral granules, with features that help explain why it broke apart as it hit ...

Though researchers confirmed the samples to be from an ordinary chondrite meteorite, the most common space rock that strikes Earth, it’s the only meteorite known to have landed on Prince Edward ...