In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

As this type of meteorite usually contains little or no extraterrestrial iron, they’re difficult to locate. One of their identification markers is a glossy fusion crust, similar to enamel paint. The ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

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

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 discovery not only ...

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

the researchers compared meteoroids that hit the atmosphere with those that survived and were recovered as meteorites. This allowed them to trace meteorite-producing orbits and study their ...