Artist illustration of the formation of the solar system, capturing the moment where radioactive nuclei got incorporated into solids that would become meteorites. Credit: Bill…
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Flensburg meteorite with black fusion crust: Parts of the fusion crust were lost during the flight through the atmosphere. The small fragment, weighing 24,5 grams,…
NASA’s astromaterials sample collections, which include a library of Apollo lunar and Antarctic meteorite samples, are now offered online through a new virtual exploration tool…
SwRI scientists studied the composition of a small shard of a meteoroid to determine that it likely originated from a previously unknown parent asteroid. This…
A fragment of the Murchison meteorite, one of the three carbon-rich meteorites that was sampled in this study. Credit: Daniel P. Glavin Scientists from Japan…
The observatories are 173 km apart. The relatively close distance allows more accurate correlation of their data. Credit: © 2020 Ohsawa et al. Researchers give…
Artist’s conception of the dust and gas surrounding a new planetary system. Credit: NASA A long time ago — roughly 4.5 billion years — our…
Physical map of the Serra da Cangalha, Brazil, impact structure, produced using the TanDEM-X mission digital elevation model. Credit: Gottwald, Kenkmann, Reimold: Terrestrial Impact Structures,…
Black Beauty. Martian meteorite NWA 7533 is worth more than its weight in gold. Credit: © University of Copenhagen/Deng et al. A meteorite that originated…
Scanning electron microscope image of the new mineral, Donwilhelmsite, in the lunar meteorite Oued Awlitis 001. Credit: © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Ansgar Greshake Donwilhelmsite…
Fireball meteorite illustration. On the night of January 16, 2018, a fireball meteor streaked across the sky over the Midwest and Ontario before landing on…
Artist’s concept of meteoriteAnimation inspired by the bright, burning glow of meteors as they enter Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Declan McKenna During…
Artist’s impression of the collision of two protoplanets. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe…
Asteroid 4-Vesta is the second-largest body in the asteroid belt. Uranium-lead dating and other analytical methods tell researchers which meteorites come from Vesta and also…
The Earth is the only planet known to have liquid water on its surface, a fundamental characteristic when it comes to explaining the emergence of…
Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a scientific team has for…
X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source helped scientists to establish that the parent planetesimal of rare meteorites, like the one shown here, had…
Family of Oddball Meteorites Stumped Researchers for Decades – Now an Answer to the Puzzling Chimera
Family of Oddball Meteorites Stumped Researchers for Decades – Now an Answer to the Puzzling Chimera
Samples from a rare meteorite family, including the one shown here, reveal that their parent planetesimal, formed in the earliest stages of the solar system,…
The heavily cratered surface of the Moon’s South Pole. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Research of an Apollo 17 sample, led by…
Curious Marie comes from the Allende meteorite, which fell in northern Mexico in February 1969. The white, fuzzy-looking features in this fragment of Allende are…