Meteorites serve as unique time capsules that ... despite having a short half-life) across the solar nebula. Initial suspicions suggesting that Erg Chech 002 dates back to 4.566 billion years ...

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?

Scientists think they may have come from space. For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination.