Meteorites

Why do pebbles pulverize after they leave the comet?

Study combines meteorite data with thermodynamic modeling.

The Ryugu samples avoided terrestrial alteration.

Icy micrometeorites: Nitrogen transport to earth.

Collisions between asteroids might lead to the formation of metal asteroids.

Intriguing insights into the liquid core at the center of Mars.

A new study shows that simple hand magnets erase a meteorite’s magnetic memory.

Analysis of meteorites can provide insights into the asteroids they come from and how they have formed.

Scientists actually returned with five new meteorites, including this one.

Determining whether gamma-ray radiation could have contributed to amino acid formation in early meteorites.

The meteoroid excavated boulder-size chunks of ice buried closer to the Martian equator.

Major impact events on Earth were not stand-alone events.