NWA 16788 was unearthed in November 2023 by a meteorite hunter in the remote Agadez region of Niger, a location better known ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Meteorites that emerged from the Sahara desert might be from another resident of our solar system, Mercury. To say Mercury is extreme is an understatement— it’s hot enough to melt lead, after all.

Scientists have observed whether the meteorites can reach Earth from Mercury. Over thousands of meteorites from Mars and the ...

They're made up of chondrules, or small, spherical grains of silicate minerals such as olivine and pyroxene. Herd believes the meteorite that struck Velaidum's property came from an asteroid belt ...

In a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal, University of Arizona scientists identified an asteroid named 1998 OR2 as one potential source of shock-darkened meteorites.

Other samples have contained more pyroxene than olivine; the samples taken by Pragyan, however, ... (from the repository of returned samples and lunar meteorites). ...

They're made up of chondrules, or small, spherical grains of silicate minerals such as olivine and pyroxene. Herd believes the meteorite that struck Velaidum's property came from an asteroid belt ...