Meteorites typically originate from meteoroids and asteroids measuring between 0.1 to 1 meter in diameter. These fragments were once part of larger asteroids that collided and broke apart in space.

More information: Peter Jenniskens et al, Review of asteroid, meteor, and meteorite‐type links, Meteoritics & Planetary ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study hints.

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

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 ...

Researchers at Nottingham University have employed a new technique that allows for the elasticity and stiffness of space rocks to be measured for the first time.

Researchers initially believed the unnamed meteorite hit Earth 1.17 billion years ago, creating the Stac Fada Member rock layer in northwestern Scotland. However, a new study has determined that ...

Scientists say a massive meteorite struck north-west Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought - and may have influenced early life on Earth. The meteorite, which created a layer of ...