As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

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

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

“This is very good,” Henoun ... from what turned out to be a rare type of chondrite, was $55, about the same as his monthly paycheck. “The secret of meteorites, which is not a good secret ...

But here’s the mystery: although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, meteorites from them are very rare. Less than 4% of recovered meteorites are carbonaceous chondrites. Scientists have ...