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Jenniskens and Devillepoix discuss the links of several other meteorite types to their source regions. Not all assignments are certain. “We are proud about how far we have come, but there is a ...

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 ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without crashing ...

To do this, they built a network of all-sky cameras across the globe, which they named the Global Fireball Observatory. "This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix discuss the links of several other meteorite types to their source regions. Not all assignments are certain. "We are proud of how far we have come, but there is a long ...

Caption A meteorite discovered in a Swedish quarry is unique and distinct from other meteorites. It appears to be a relic of a massive collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago that ...

“But they do come from some of the same asteroid families.” Jenniskens and Devillepoix discuss the links of several other meteorite types to their source regions. Not all assignments are certain. “We ...