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In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.
Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...
The biggest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is going under the hammer — and it’s got collectors buzzing from London to ...
Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation theories.
The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia added a 150-gram meteorite, recently seen blazing through the sky, to its collection.
The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...
A piece of outer space rock that blasted through the sky above metro Atlanta is now a part of Georgia's Tellus Science Museum ...
Cartersville’s Tellus Science Museum has collected a piece of the meteorite that fell from the sky and landed in the Henry ...
A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...
Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid is not known to face.
A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study hints.
   Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, published online this week, astronomers trace the impact orbit ...