Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less "shocked" than expected, missing the effects often seen in a ...

Scientists have long been baffled by carbon-rich meteorites that show little evidence of violent space collisions. But new ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

A Kobe University study has finally solved this decades-old puzzle. Researchers found that when meteorites are hit, organic ...

But very few of the carbon-rich rocks are actually found on Earth, comprising just 4% of the meteorites recovered on our planet’s surface. The astronomical team wanted to understand what causes ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why ...