Tagged: Meteorites

If asked where meteorites come from, you might reply “from comets.” But according to our new research, which tracked hundreds of fireballs on their journey through the Australian skies, you would be wrong. In fact, it is very likely that all meteorites—space rocks that make...

If you stumble upon an unusual rock that could be a meteorite, do not place a magnet on it to see if it’s magnetic—you’d end up erasing 4.5 billion years of magnetic history. Meteorites are remnants of our solar system’s first protoplanets and, in some...